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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
Maturity – among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
Your body must become familiar with its death – in all its possible forms and degrees – as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.
In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.