Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
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This breakage within us is what makes us human and vulnerable. There is nothing more sinister than someone whose mind seems to be an absolute circle; there is a helpless coldness and a deadly certainty about such a presence.
— John O'Donohue Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
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We should avoid the false dualism that separates the soul from the body.
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To spend time in silence before the mystery of your body brings you toward wisdom and holiness.
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All our inner life and intimacy of soul longs to find an outer mirror. It longs for a form in which it can be seen, felt, and touched. The body is the mirror where the secret world of the soul comes to expression. The body is a sacred threshold; and it deserves to be respected, minded, and understood in its spiritual nature.
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In subsequent Christian tradition, and especially among the Church Fathers, there was a deep suspicion of the body and a negative obsession with sexuality. Sex and sexuality were portrayed as a potential danger to one's eternal salvation. The Christian tradition has often undervalued and mistreated the sacred presence of the body.
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