What we perceive as dejection over the futility of life is sometimes greed, which the monastic tradition perceives as rooted in a fear of being vulnerable in a future old age, so that one hoards possessions in the present. But most often our depression is unexpressed anger, and it manifests itself as the sloth of disobedience, a refusal to keep up the daily practices that would keep us in good relationship to God and to each other. For when people allow anger to build up inside, they begin to perform daily tasks resentfully, focusing on the others as the source of their troubles. Instead of looking inward to find the true reason for their sadness - with me , it is usually a fear of losing an illusory control - they direct it outward, barreling through the world, impatient and even brutal with those they encounter, especially those who are closest to them. . Kathleen Norris
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Neil Gaiman
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
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Tony Deliso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
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Tony Deliso
Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.
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Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the...
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Alexandre Dumas
More Quotes By Kathleen Norris
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.
The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.
Success will be within your reach only when you start reaching out for it.
