"Perfection... is clearly not achieved simply by being naked, by the lack of wealth or by the rejection of honors, unless there is also that love whose ingredients the apostle described (cf. I Cor. 13) and which is to be found solely in purity of heart. Not to be jealous, not to be puffed up, not to act heedlessly, not to seek what does not belong to one, not to rejoice over some injustice, not to plan evil - what is this and its like if not the continuous offering to God of the heart that is perfect and truly pure, a heart kept free of all disturbance?"

-- John Cassian

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“Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.”
“My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.”
“Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how anxious or stressed out you are. Judging others is simply the flip side of judging yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Oct 26, 2014
“All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.”
“If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.”
“Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.”

Source : Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)
“State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development”

Source : John Warren Kindt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (1996). “U.S. National security and the strategic economic base: the business-economic impacts of the legalization of gambling activities”

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