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"It seems to me that the darkness that has troubled you ... comes from one very serious source. Without wanting to be in conflict with the truth and with the will of God, we are actually going against God's will and His teaching."
"There is a subtle but inescapable connection between the "sacred" attitude and the acceptance of one's in most self."
"I stand among you as one who offers a small message of hope. . . there are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free-floating existence under a state of risk."
"The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth."
"In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate."
"For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing."
"Nonviolence seeks to ‘win’ not by destroying or even by humiliating the adversary, but by convincing [the adversary] that there is a higher and more certain common good than can be attained by bombs and blood. Nonviolence, ideally speaking, does not try to overcome the adversary by winning over [them], but to turn [them] from an adversary into a collaborator by winning [them] over."
"We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation"