"No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God."

Religion, Faith, Spiritual, God, Guidance

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"No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God."

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"Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ."

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"Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life."

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"I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me."

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"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."

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"The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error."

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