"He who has not yet attained divine knowledge energized by love is proud of his spiritual progress. But he who has been granted such knowledge repeats with deep conviction the words uttered by the patriarch Abraham when he was granted the manifestation of God: 'I am dust and ashes' (Gen. 18:27)."

-- Maximus the Confessor

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“When you travel the world, you have to watch and you have to listen. We're not going to come in to Ireland without an understanding that there's a history that's very sensitive.”
“I have naturally formed the habit of restraining my thoughts. A thoughtless word hardly ever escaped my tongue or pen. Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. We find so many people impatient to talk. All this talking can hardly be said to be of any benefit to the world. It is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.”
“We destroy things with our curiosity. We shatter with our best intentions”
“I just can really adapt to any kind of environment.”
“What a man takes in by contemplation, that he pours out in love.”
“A horse herd was, in its very essence, the manifestation of the expression 'It's always something.”
“I got here the same way the coin did.”
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”

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