“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with people. But the man who learns, in solitude and recollection, to be at peace with his own loneliness, and to prefer its reality to the illusion of merely natural companionship, comes to know the invisible companionship of God.

Such a one is alone with God in all places, and he alone truly enjoys the companionship of other men, because he loves them in God in Whom their presence is not tiresome, and because of Whom his own love for them can never know satiety.”


― Thomas Merton

Thank you! :smile:

“...But if a mirror ever makes
you sad

you should know
that it does
not know
you.”

― Kabir

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Cast all your anxiety on him...

-Peter
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The truth is that this earth is the scene of a drama of
which we only perceive scattered portions,
and in which the greater number of the actors are invisible to us.

-Illusions by Mabel Collins, d 1927

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That is a beautiful quote. Nourishing relationships is an art

Now what did someone else say?

All we want to learn is what keeps us from love....
What the heck are the blocks!!!!


WHAT is blocking us!!!!

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air,but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle=Thich Nhat Hanh

With every breath
I plant the seeds of devotion -
I am a farmer of the heart.

~ Rumi