"The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments."

-- Richard Rohr

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“It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.”
“If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.”
“I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.”
“Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!”

Source : Thomas Gray, John Mitford (1816). “The poems, with critical notes, a life of the author, and an essay on his poetry, by J. Mitford”, p.61
“Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.”
“We are unlimited beings. We have no ceiling. The capabilities and the talents and the gifts and the power that is within every single individual that is on this planet, is unlimited.”

Source : FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Oct 17, 2012
“As far as possible, everyone in the family should eat together.”
“One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it.”

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