The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

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Our real journey in life is interior.

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‎Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.

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To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

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People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.

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In the devil's theology, the important thing is to be absolutely right and to prove that everybody else is absolutely wrong.

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In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

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Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

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Instead of hating the people you think are war-makers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed - but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

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When you see God in everyone, then they see God in you.

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