At the head of all understanding is realizing what is and what cannot be and the consoling of what is not in our power to change.
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Center of the Universe
Someday when scientists discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be unhappy to find out it’s not them.
What a crime it is for a man to grow old without having seen the strength and beauty of which his body is capable.
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true.
Souls are like bathroom floors; it’s not until you get down on your knees that you see how badly they need a cleaning.
No one is obliged to take part in the spiritual crisis of a society; on the contrary, everyone is obliged to avoid this folly and live his life in order.
Intrusions of grace…
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.
Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.
To find something that is given, one must first be looking for it. To understand an answer, one must first have asked the question, otherwise the explanation will sound like a foreign tongue, or like empty silence.
It’s my belief that sanity lies in realizing that reality is not exactly what we had in mind.