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By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a ...more

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I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposel...more

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The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meanings and signs of the outer...more

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There is not a flower that opens not a seed that falls into the ground and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that do...more

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Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.

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The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and p...more

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The point where you become free not to kill, not to exploit, not to destroy, not to compete, because you are no longer afraid of death or the devil or...more

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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts ...more

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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intenti...more

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a ch...more

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The fact that our being necessarily demands to be expressed in action should not lead us to believe that as soon as we stop acting we cease to exist.W...more

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If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.