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In the end, no one can seek God unless he has already begun to find him.

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We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achi...more

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In other words, I have tried to learn in my writing a monastic lesson I could probably not have learned otherwise: to let go of my idea of myself, to ...more

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We overcome the evil in the world by the charity and compassion of God, and in so doing we drive all evil out of our own hearts. The evil that is in u...more

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As a matter of face, Zen is at present most fashionable in America among those who are least concerned with moral discipline. Zen has, indeed, become ...more

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The story of the Fall tells us in mythical language that "original sin" is not simply a stigma arbitrarily making good pleasures seem guilty, but a ba...more