"You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world."

-- Paula D'Arcy

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“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.
“If a community of people wears white on a mournful occasion and another dresses in black, then one community would like white and dislike black and the other would like black and dislike white. Moreover, this attitude leaves a physical effect on the cells as well as on the genes in the body.”
“When you have to prove the value of your ideas by persuading other people to pay for them, it clears out an awful lot of woolly thinking.”
“You are a den of vipers. I intend to rout you out and by the Eternal God I will rout you out. If the people only understood the rank injustice of our money and banking system, there would be a revolution before morning.”
“The whole world has changed after September 11th.”
“Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!”
“I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad.”
“The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.”

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