“ The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. ”
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“ Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with. It is the only decent way to live. ”
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“ Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. ”
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“ Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience to appreciate the fact that life is complex. ”
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“ The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is tho accept the fact that everything that happens to is has been designed for our spiritual growth. ”
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“ The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is tho accept the fact that everything that happens to is has been designed for our spiritual growth. ”
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“ I feel compelled to make another 'nonapology.' Many readers are likely to be concerned about my use of masculine pronouns in relation to God. I think I both understand and appreciate this concern. It is a matter to which I have given much thought. I have generally been a strong supporter of the women's movement and action that is reasonable to combat sexist language. But first of all, God is not neuter. He is exploding with life and love and even sexuality of a sort. So 'It' is not appropriate. Certainly I consider God androgynous. He is as gentle and tender and nurturing and maternal as any woman could ever be. Nonetheless, culturally determined though it may be, I subjectively experience His reality as more masculine than feminine. While He nurtures us, He also desires to penetrate us, and while we more often than not flee from His love like a reluctant virgin, He chases after us with a vigor in the hunt that we most typically associate with males. As CS Lewis put it, in relation to God we are all female. Moreover, whatever our gender or conscious theology, it is our dutyour obligationin response to His love to attempt to give birth, like Mary, to Christ in ourselves and in others. "I shall, however, break with tradition and use the neuter for Satan. While I know Satan to be lustful to penetrate us, I have not in the least experienced this desire as sexual or creativeonly hateful and destructive. It is hard to determine the sex of a snake. ”
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“ Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
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“ Simply, health is an ongoing process, often painful, of an organism becoming the most — the best — it can be. And disease is anything, sometimes painful, often painless, that interferes with the process of health. ”
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“ An adventure is going into the unknown. If you know exactly where you are going, exactly how you will get there, and exactly what you will see along the way, it is not an adventure… Because they involve the unknown, adventures are inherently dangerous to a greater or lesser degree… ”
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“ Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. ”
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“ Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
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“ Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems… create our courage and wisdom. ”
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“ Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ”
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“ Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. ”
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“ There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace and ultimately no life, without community. ”
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“ You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time. ”
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“ Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness… ”
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“ The feeling of being valuable — "I am a valuable person" — is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline…because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of onself in all ways that are necessary… ”
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“ The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth. ”
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“ Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness… ”
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“ I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic. ”
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“ Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
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