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Ronald Rolheiser Quotes: Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
         

Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.


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Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.



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Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.



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