If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice.
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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment.Meister Eckhart
The kind of work we do does not make us holy, but we can make it holy. However 'sacred' a calling may be, as it is a calling, it has no power to sanctify but rather as we are and have the divine being within, we bless each task we do, be it eating, or sleeping, or watching, or any other.
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Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.
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Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
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Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
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Words derive their power from the original word.
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