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There are people who savour God in one way but not in another, and they want to possess God according to one manner of devotion…

But mortification – literally, “making death” – is what life is all about, a slow discovery of the mortality of all that is created so…

All God appears to want from us is honesty and humility (and they are finally the same thing). If God is holding out for human…

One of the things that block us from gaining freedom from fear is that most fearful people don’t think of themselves as afraid. Unless their…

To Gibbie, however, bare-legged, bare-footed, almost bare-bodied as he was, sun or shadow made small difference, except as one of the musical intervals of life…

  . . . . The beauty of this world is Christ’s tender smile coming to us through matter. . . . . The beautiful…

I love the pounding of hooves I love engines that roar I love the wild music of waves on the shore And the spiral perfection…

Each person is born with an unencumbered spot, free of expectation and regret, free of ambition and embarrassment, free of fear and worry; an umbilical…

He did not torture himself with vain attempts to hold his brain as a mirror to his heart, that he might read his heart there.…

There is a Sufi story about a man who is so good that the angels ask God to give him the gift of miracles. God…