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Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

Teresa of Avila

If we learn to love the earth, we will find labyrinths, gardens, fountains and precious jewels! A whole new world will open itself to us. We will discover what it means to be truly alive.
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Alive Discover Earth Learning Love Open Search True
It is impossible for human tongue to exaggerate the riches which a vision from God brings to the soul: it even bestows health and refreshment on the body.
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Body Human Impossible Refresh Rich Vision
There seem to me a great many blessings which come from true poverty and I should be sorry to be deprived of them.
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Greatness Myself Poverty Sorry True
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
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Experience Goodness Reach
Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom.
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Brand Freedom God Himself People Slave Spiritual
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn.
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Comfortable Life Night
Don’t let your sins turn into bad habits.
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Bad Habit Sin Yourself
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
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Action Disturb Ignorance Lose Motivational Ourselves Peace Soul Wrong
It is the nature of love to work in a thousand different ways.
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Different Love Nature Way Work
Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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Friendship God Himself Mental Prayer Secret
Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence.
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Castle Remember Value Worth
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
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Blessing Purpose Suffering World
If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.
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Carry Perfection Reason Seek Understand Yourself
When we accept what happens to us and make the best of it, we are praising God.
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Acceptance Best God Praise
Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.
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Afraid Death Live Way

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

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