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If you lose an opportunity you will be like one who lets the bird fly away; you will never get it back.

John of the Cross

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Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
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In search of my Love I will go over mountains and strands; I will gather no flowers, I will fear no wild beasts; And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.
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Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.
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In the twilight of life, God will not judge us on our earthly possessions and human success, but rather on how much we have loved.
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If it were given to a man to see virtue’s reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.
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At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.
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In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
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Where there is no love, pour love in, and you will draw love out.
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God is a dark night to man in this life.
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Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
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The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
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God leads every soul by a separate path.
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Silence is God’s first language.
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Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
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However softly we speak, God is so close to us that he can hear us; nor do we need wings to go in search of him, but merely to seek solitude and contemplate him within ourselves, without being surprised to find such a good Guest there.
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It is great wisdom to know how to be silent and to look at neither the remarks, nor the deeds, nor the lives of others.
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