"Blessed is the mind which, during prayer, is insensible to all things."

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Nilus of Sinai

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“A deadness occurs in relationships when people are no longer willing to tell each other how they really feel.”
“Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this. I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta.”
“I have assimilated Western thought and its clarity, but, in fact, I am solidly rooted in the passive Eastern nature and remain rebellious to any action.”

Source : "Exarch Leonid Feodorov" by Paul Mailleux, (p. 181), 1964.
“The winds of God's grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.”
“Memory is a barricade against forgetting; light is a bulwark against darkness; life is a flex against the stillness of the grave. Maybe that's what I'm trying to do here, clear a space in all the debris, through all the anxieties and worries, where I can just exist, easily and simply, entire, for as long as I have left.”

Source : Helen Humphreys (2006). “Wild Dogs: A Novel”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company
“I was a very unpleasant young man. If I met the young Ingmar today I'd say, 'You're very talented and I'll try to help you, but I don't want anything else to do with you.”
“I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.”

Source : Conrad Black (2012). “A Matter of Principle”, p.61, Encounter Books
“If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.”

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