Therese of Lisieux wrote to her agonized sister about the trial of being displeasing to oneself. No one who has looked deeply into himself evades this fiery trial. Some are overwhelmed by it.
Stephen Boss
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Therese of Lisieux wrote to her agonized sister about the trial of being displeasing to oneself. No one who has looked deeply into himself evades this fiery trial. Some are overwhelmed by it.
Man is pure when desireless, simple when fearless.
The virtues are an absence before they are a presence. Courage is the absence of fear, innocence of lust, humility of pride. And what is this purifying fecundity, this mothering absence? Love, actually.
Don’t get involved with your thoughts. Let them come. And let them go.
Sometimes joy displays itself in a burst of riotous theatricality. As, for example, in the gravity-defying hop of a “kinder” goat.