"We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone."

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Source : Sara Maitland, The School of Life (2014). “How to Be Alone”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

Sara Maitland

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“Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There you will find romance, glory, honor, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth, and more than that: death: by the divine paradox, that which ends life, and demands the surrender of all, and yet by the taste (or foretaste) of which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, or take on that complexion of reality, of eternal endurance, that every man's heart desires”
“All of my books now come from readers' ideas.”
“Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.”

Source : " Zen and the Art of Systems Analysis : Meditations on Computer Systems Development" by Patrick McDermott, (p. xix), 2002.
“When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.”
“We all have one, in one form or another. To me, this dragon is both the wild nature of ourselves and our conscience in his embodiment of the Old Code ethical behavior and morality. At the same time, he's our unconscious, the place from which our dreams arise. I just spoke my lines to the dragon within me.”
“Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.”

Source : FaceBook post by Keith Sweat from Dec 20, 2013
“If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.”
“I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full.”

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