The more God asks us to participate in His mysteries, the more disoriented we become, because He asks us constantly to follow our dreams and our hearts. And that's difficult to do when we're used to living in a different way.Finally we discover, to our surprise, that God wants us to be happy, because He is the Father.
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Zum Autor"And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others become angry. Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
"When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple."
"Tell me about your life since I last saw you.' | 'There are no great mysteries to tell. My path is always ther, and I do everything I can to follow it in a dignified way.' | 'What is your path?' | 'The path of someone seeking love.' | 'And love's path is really complicated.' | 'Because on that path we can go either to heaven or to hell?"
"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, 'Oh, the book is better."
"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."
"All this was new to me. Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move towards the unknown - even when we don't want to and we think we don't need to."