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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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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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History
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Thomas Merton
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Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it. – Thomas Merton

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Future
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Thomas Merton
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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. – Thomas Merton

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alone
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Thomas Merton
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The time may come when not offering this substantially more effective nutritional approach will be considered malpractice. – Joel Fuhrman, Fasting and Eating for Health: A Medical Doctor’s Program fo

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Fasting

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. – St. Jerome

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Fasting

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world. – Al-Ghazali

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Fasting

Random Quotes

I wrote the very first stories in science fiction which dealt with homosexuality, The World Well Lost and Affair With a Green Monkey. – Theodore Sturgeon

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Science

Nothing so absurd as to sit down and wring your hands because all the good which may happen to you in twenty years has not taken place at this precise moment. – Sydney Smith, “A Little Moral Advice: A Fragment on the Cultivation and Improvem

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Attitude

I believe the Bible is the word of God from cover to cover. – Billy Sunday

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God

By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression. – Dan Cruickshank

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Modern, Modernism