"In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be"

-- John Main

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“Even the rats are drowning,' Alex said. Nah,' Kevin said. 'They've been taking swimming lessons at the Y.”
“The lack of human voices really gets to me. I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”
“The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds.”
“Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps Chauncey B. Tinker was the most noted. To read one of his lectures was like reading a monologue of the great actress Ruth Draper--you missed the main point. You missed the drop in his voice as he approached the death in Rome of the tubercular Keats; you missed the shaking tone in which he described the poet's agony for the absent Fanny with him his love had never been consummated; you missed the grim silence of the end.”
“I mean, I try to say the right things and give the right advice. But still, I'm only a person.”
“On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.”
“The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.”
“Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.”

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