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It's one of the properties of love to love what is loved by the person we love.

St. Catherine of Siena

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To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.
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Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
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God cannot leave us. It is just that our soul is so vast, we do not always feel His lips upon the veil.
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You are rewarded not according to your work or your time but according to the measure of your love.
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Make two homes for thyself, my daughter. One actual home . . . and the other a spiritual home which thou are to carry with thee always.
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