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Serenity is to keep oneself above the clouds, in the calm and coolness of emptiness and far from all the dissonances of this lower world
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The pure present is the moment of the Absolute: it is now — neither yesterday nor tomorrow — that we stand before God.
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The man who is conscious of the nature of pure Being willingly remains in the moment that Heaven has assigned him; he is not feverishly straining towards the future nor lovingly or sadly bent over the past.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols:
The man who is conscious of the nature of pure Being willingly remains in the moment that Heaven has assigned him; he is not feverishly straining towards the future nor lovingly or sadly bent over the past. The pure present is the moment of the Absolute.
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Serenity consists in resigning oneself to that destiny, at once unique and permanent, which is the present moment: to this itinerant “now” that no one can avoid and that in its substance pertains to the Eternal.
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The pure present is the moment of the Absolute: it is now — neither yesterday nor tomorrow — that we stand before God.
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When God created man in His image, He created a measure; the human perception of the world corresponds to God's creative intention. Man by definition is a center, or "the center" in a given universe.
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Primordial man knew by himself that God is; fallen man does not know it; he must learn it.
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Primordial man loved God more than the world; fallen man loves the world more than God, he must therefore practice renunciation.
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Primordial man was always aware of God; fallen man, while having learned that God is, must force himself to be aware of it always
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He who is really at peace with God is free from all unhealthy curiosity, he lives, like a well-guarded child, in the blessed garden of a grace that does not forsake him; the Creator knows the best place for the creature, and He knows what is good for man
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The universe is a veil woven of necessity and freedom, of mathematical rigor and musical play; every phenomenon participates in these two principles: everything is situated in two apparently divergent but at bottom concordant dimensions.
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There is no reason for necessarily seeking the cause of a phenomenon on the plane where it is produced, on the contrary one has to consider the possibility of a non-material cause.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols:
When God created man in His image, He created a measure; the human perception of the world corresponds to God's creative intention.
Traditional Quotes and Symbols:
He who is really at peace with God is free from all unhealthy curiosity, he lives, like a well-guarded child, in the blessed garden of a grace that does not forsake him; the Creator knows the best place for the creature, and He knows what is good for man.
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Man's reason for being is to be situated above the plane of existence upon which he has been projected, and this while adapting himself to the nature of that plane.
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No evil can take anything away from the Sovereign Good or ought to disturb our relationship with God; we must never lose sight of absolute values when in contact with the absurd.