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Meaning: Where Monk and Child Meet

David Steindl-Rast

The monk in us is very closely related to the child in us or, if you want, to the mystic in us — and we are all meant to be mystics. We do a great disservice to mystics by putting them up on a pede...

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When Vanishing Vanishes

David Steindl-Rast

There\'s something to love and faithfulness, beauty and goodness, something that is not subject to time. For me, it is enormously consoling and reassuring that there is only a limited amount of time t...

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