Elegy I open the first door. It is a large sunlit room. A heavy car passes outside and makes the china quiver. I open door number two. Friends! You drank some darkness and became visible. Door number three. A narrow hotel room. View on an alley. One lamppost shines on the asphalt. Experience, its beautiful […]
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“The ability to interact effectively with angry patients is a skill that is often learned with experience and is extremely useful in both transforming the patients’ reaction into a more creative emotion and in developing a therapeutic relationship … Almost always, anger will resolve if the patient is given time, respect, clear information and consistency
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Chris Bacich, US responsible of Communion & Liberation, describes two experiences that underline the importance that awe in front of the mystery of reality takes precedence over our own thoughts and schemes … The first is about the sudden death of young people. The second relates a conversation with don Giussani about an episode in the
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… not that God became a man … but that he became a baby. “We all know the strength of presence and love. At night in our homes, being alone makes us afraid. Having a loved one there ― any loved one ― gives us courage. In our families, being in the presence of love,
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“The Gospel is right, however, when it dares to speak to us of the value of suffering and affliction. We realize this as soon as we have the courage to face the concrete reality of our lives. They are a strange mixture of sorrow, pleasure and pain, success and suffering, life and death. When we
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Romanesque Arches Inside the huge romanesque church the tourists jostled in the half darkness. Vault gaped behind vault, no complete view. A few candle-flames flickered. An angel with no face embraced me and whispered through my whole body: “Don’t be ashamed of being human, be proud! Inside you vault opens behind vault endlessly. You will
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1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.5. I wish that I had let myself
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I was struck because I realized that the problem is that I need to be affirmed, gratified and acknowledged. Going over, in a flash, what had happened that morning, I got to the point of asking myself: in my experience, what is it that makes me feel affirmed, wanted, gratified? Well, while I was having
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Weren’t you astonished by the caution of human gestures on Attic gravestones? Wasn’t love and departure placed so gently on shoulders that it seemed to be made of a different substance than in our world? Remember the hands, how weightlessly they rest, though there is power in the torsos. These self-mastered figures know: “We can
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