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Quote of the day 12/21/25

From St. John of the Cross: “In order to arrive at what you do not know, you must go by a way which you do not know.”

From Seneca: “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”

From Thomas Aquinas: “Patience is a virtue that preserves the soul against sadness.”

From Gautama Buddha: “As a mother would protect her only child with her life, so should one cultivate a boundless heart toward all beings.”

From Gautama Buddha: “All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”

From Richard Rorty: “There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

From William James: “Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”

From William James: “Beyond the very extremes of fatigue and distress, men… break into a new realm of power and endurance.”

From William James: “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”

From William James: “The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.”