"Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus,"

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Richard Rohr

#Baby Quotes #Jesus Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.”
“I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bret Easton Ellis from Oct 30, 2011
“Golf's the only sport that comes with a slave.”
“At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.”

Source : "While Rome Burns". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1934.
“We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-momen t lives. We find true refuge whenever we recognize the silent space of awareness behind all our busy doing and striving. We find refuge whenever our hearts open with tenderness and love. We find refuge whenever we connect with the innate clarity and intelligence of our true nature.”
“War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.”
“Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when?”
“Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!”

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