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[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. - T
[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens. – Thomas Merton

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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. – Thomas Merton

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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. – Thomas Merton

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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how. – Thomas Merton

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If thou wouldst preserve a sound body, use fasting and walking; if a healthful soul, fasting and praying; walking exercises the body, praying exercises the soul, fasting cleanses both. – Francis Quarles

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Eating three times a day means taking on, almost without respite, the work of assimilation. – Adalbert de Vogüé, To Love Fasting: The Monastic Experience

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[H]appy is he who has fasted in sincerity and truth! Happy he whose humbled heart has expanded in love! – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), “The Fasting God Regards Not,” Evangelical Me

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Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself. – Augustine of Hippo

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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No matter what, like, I couldnt – I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. Thats what she says all the time. – Ryan Lochte

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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. – William Shakespeare

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