"...when we abandon visible riches... it is strange goods and not our own that we are leaving. And this is so even if we boast that we acquired them through our own efforts or that they were passed on to us as an inheritance. I say nothing is ours except what is in our hearts, what belongs to our souls, what cannot be taken away by anyone."

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Source : John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.91, Paulist Press

John Cassian

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“I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.”
“Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours”
“He watched them grow, until eventually, great forests of words had risen throughout Germany.... It was a nation of farmed thoughts.”
“I don't write political plays in the sense that I'm writing essays that are kind of disguised as plays. I would really defy anyone to watch any of my plays and say 'Well, here's the point.'”
“My mother said I broke her heart...but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us...but within that inch we are free.”
“I didn't aspire to write and never considered it as a career option.”
“Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.”
“If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.”

Source : Lincoln Ellsworth (1938). “Beyond Horizons”, New York, Book League of America

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