Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything.

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Our real journey in life is interior.

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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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The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves.

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

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Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

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You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

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