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Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

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Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.
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Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.
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I only wish I could write with both hands, so as not to forget one thing while I am saying another.
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We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness His purity shows us our foulness and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.
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