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20 Jan 2023 18:18

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

~John Muir

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19 Jan 2023 04:51

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19 Jan 2023 01:51

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18 Jan 2023 22:51

“Because it’s there… Everest is the highest mountain in the world, and no man has reached its summit. Its existence is a challenge. The answer is instinctive, a part, I suppose, of man’s desire to conquer the universe.”

~George Mallory 1923

A year later, friends Andrew Irvine and George Mallory would succumb to the harsh elements of Mt. Everest and ddieon their trek in 1924.

Is there a conquering spirit that lives within you that'll allow you to sacrifice your all in pursuit of glory in this world?

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11 Jan 2023 04:53

"How beautiful, then, the marriage of two Christians, two who are one in home, one in desire, one in the way of life they follow, one in the religion they practice . . . Nothing divides them either in flesh or in spirit . . . They pray together, they worship together, they fast together; instructing one another, encouraging one another, strengthening one another. Side by side they visit God's church and partake God's banquet, side by side they face difficulties and persecution, share their consolations. They have no secrets from one another; they never shun each other's company; they never bring sorrow to each other's hearts . . . Seeing this Christ rejoices. To such as these He gives His peace. Where there are two together, there also He is present."

~Tertullian

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11 Jan 2023 01:53

Introíbo ad altáre Dei.  Ad Deum, qui lætíficat juventútem meam.

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10 Jan 2023 22:53

"The world's thy ship and not thy home."

~St. Thérèse de Lisieux

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10 Jan 2023 19:53

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10 Jan 2023 06:18

"Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor."

~Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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10 Jan 2023 03:17

0:00 Gestillte Sehnsucht,
D major

6:21 Geistliches Wiegenlied,
F major

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10 Jan 2023 00:17

Doggo says; thou shalt not pass to best friend climbing the stairs. 🤍

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09 Jan 2023 21:17

Footage of Lyon, France, 1895-96.

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09 Jan 2023 18:17

"Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future."

~Seneca

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07 Jan 2023 05:36

T.S. Eliot reads: Gerontion.

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07 Jan 2023 03:45

Veni, creator Spiritus
mentes tuorum visita,
imple superna gratia,
quae tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus,
altissimi donum Dei,
fons vivus, ignis, caritas
et spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere,
digitus paternae dexterae
tu rite promissum Patris
sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus,
infunde amorem cordibus,
infirma nostri corporis,
virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius
pacemque dones protinus;
ductore sic te praevio
vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem
noscamus atque Filium,
te utriusque Spiritum
credamus omni tempore.

Deo Patri sit gloria,
et Filio qui a mortuis
Surrexit, ac Paraclito,
in saeculorum saecula.

Amen.

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19 Jan 2023 06:21

"Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation."

~Thomas Keating

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19 Jan 2023 03:21

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19 Jan 2023 00:21

Good doggo. 🤍

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11 Jan 2023 18:18

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive."

~Flannery O'Connor

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11 Jan 2023 03:23

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11 Jan 2023 00:23

Job 12:7-10

7 “But ask the animals, and they will teach you, or the birds in the sky, and they will tell you; 

8 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you, or let the fish in the sea inform you. 

9 Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this? 

10 In his hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind."

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10 Jan 2023 21:23

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10 Jan 2023 18:23

"The highest good is a mind that scorns the happenings of chance, and rejoices only in virtue."

~Seneca, On the Happy Life

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10 Jan 2023 04:47

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10 Jan 2023 01:47

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09 Jan 2023 22:47

Étretat, The Beach and the Falaise d’Amont, 1885.

~Claude Monet

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09 Jan 2023 19:47

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07 Jan 2023 07:06

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07 Jan 2023 03:25

Happy Birthday, "Little Flower"
🍥🍰🎂🌞🎉🎈

150 year anniversary of birth the of St Thérèse of Lisieux

Born - 2 January, 1873
Baptised - 4 January, 1873


" Jesus points out to me the only way which leads to Love's furnace - that way is self- surrender. It is the confidence of the little child who sleeps without fear in its father's arms.
- St Thérèse

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