"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918), Russian author, Nobel Prize 1970, 'The Gulap Archipelago'
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ON BEING YOURSELF, REFLECTIONS ON SPIRITUALITY AND ORIGINALITY
Adrian VanKaam, C.S.Sp.
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"Presence to the mysterious Divine Origin of my life does not mean that I escape the struggle, effort, and conflict of humanity on its way to a better world. It makes me share more courageously in this struggle."
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"Awareness of my Sacred Origin has the power to uplift me to a serenity which no conflict or suffering can disturb. Yet to live in this awareness does not imply selfish placidity; it does not remove me from the anguish and effort of the common life. On the contrary, I am better equipped to stand up under the pressures and conflicts of daily existence. I feel stronger and wiser because I realize that our Eternal Origin originates each one of us uniquely."
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"The more I live in light of this Presence, the more I will be able to experience my works, dreams, tensions, and worries as patterns of a meaningful whole. I must allow my origin in the Sacred to dominate my life as the ultimate meaning of all I am and do. I may then regain the lost wholeness I seek."
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