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A daydream is an evasion.  
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can ser...  
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An author in a Trappist monastery is like a duck in a chicken coop. An...  
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.  
Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and y...  
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewe...   Nature
Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your ...  
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform...  
In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living ...  
It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can...  
Men in bowlers and dark suits with their rolled-up umbrellas. Men full...  
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to...  
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. ...  
So Brother Matthew locked the gate behind me, and I was enclosed in th...  
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it ...  
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves,...  
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.  
The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the tr...  
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.  
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mer...  
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the inter...  
There was this shadow, this double, this writer who had followed me in...  
We do not exist for ourselves...  
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and ir...  
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time...  
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacit...  
We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But ...  
What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross th...  
Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desper...  
When ambition ends, happiness begins.  
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is ...