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"One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs."
"To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease."
"All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope."
"It is precisely in times of spiritual dryness that we must hold on to our spiritual discipline so that we can grow into new intimacy with God."
"For me the university has always been an ideal context for spiritual formation. I always felt that if you want to offer spiritual formation at the university, you can."
"Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful."
"For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?"
"From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF."
"Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out."
"From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That's what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest."
"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe."
"Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office."
"Real freedom is not something to be acquired, it is the outcome of intelligence."
"A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions."
"It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve."
"Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails."
"Freedom is now or never."
"Truth does not belong to an individual."
"If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower."
"To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention."
