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Between the Heart and God

· 1 December 2007 | 648 words

You realize that prayer takes us beyond the law. When you are praying you are, in a certain sense, an outlaw. There is no law between the heart and God. (Thomas Merton) I have been mulling over this quote I discovered...

Rules

· 4 March 2007 | 281 words

"To sin, it is not necessary to break the rules," the sage said. "just keep them to the letter." It is more than possible to make rules for our existence, the measure of our souls. But when rule-keeping takes...