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He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. -

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment. – Meister Eckhart

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You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. – Meister Eckhart

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We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity… But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me. – Meister Eckhart

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There is in stillness oft a magic power
To calm the breast when struggling passions lower,
Touched by its influence, in the soul arise
Diviner feelings, kindred with the skies. – John Henry Newman

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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm. – Anon.

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Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose. – Cyril Connolly

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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. – Hermann Hesse

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True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values. – William Ralph Inge

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