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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.

Teresa of Avila

Let nothing disturb thee, let nothing affright thee. All things are passing. Patience obtains all things. He who has God has everything – God alone suffices.
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Disturb Enough God Himself Patience
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
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Compliment God Greatness Himself Pau
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
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Crystal God Grace Life Man Rise River State Tree Water
It is love alone that gives worth to all things.
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Alone Love Worth
For pity’s sake, don’t start meeting troubles halfway.
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Pity Start Trouble Way
People in the world pay little heed to reason where their own interests are involved.
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Interest Pay People Reason World
Happy the heart where love has come to birth.
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Born Happiness Love
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
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Freedom Ourselves Sin True
The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.
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God Life Spirit
To want to become angels while we are still on earth is ridiculous.
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Angel Earth Weird
If this is the way You treat Your friends, no wonder You have so few!
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Friendship Way Wonderful Yourself
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction.
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Direction Happiness Move Reality Right
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
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Forgiveness Himself Injury Present
Union is as if in a room there were two large windows through which the light streamed in; it enters in different places but it all becomes one.
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Different Oneself Place Unity Window
Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.
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Care Death Remember Soul Yourself
He who has God finds he is lacking nothing.
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God Himself Satisfaction

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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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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