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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Yuanwu Keqin

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Keqin, Yuanwu. 碧巖錄 [The Blue Cliff Record]. c. 1125.

I have freed my soul.

Bernard of Clairvaux

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Bernard of Clairvaux. "Letter CVI: To Magister Henry Murdach." Epistles. n.d., no. CCCLXXI.

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Bernard of Clairvaux. "Letter CVI: To Magister Henry Murdach." The Letters of Bernard Clairvaux, translated by Bruno Scott James. Liturgical Press, 2003.

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Clairvaux, St. Bernard. Letter to Magister Henry Murdach. c. 1150.

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Clairvaux, St. Bernard. "Letter CVI." Life and Works of Saint Bernard. Aeterna Press, 2015.

Kill them all; for the Lord knoweth them that are His.

Arnaud Amalric

Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles

Statement prior to the massacre at Beziers, France on July 22, 1209, as part of the Albigensian Crusade.

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Arnaud Amalric. Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles, written by Caesarius of Hesterbach. c. 1223.

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Arnaud Amalric. Quoted in The Dialogue on Miracles, written by Caesarius of Hesterbach, translated by Ronald Pepin. Vol. 1, Liturgical Press, 2023.

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Shantideva. बोधिसत्त्वाचर्यावतार [Bodhicaryavatara]. c. 700, ch. 8.

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Shantideva. The Bodhicaryavatara, translated by Kat Crosby and Andrew Skilton. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

Praised be You, my Lord, with all your creatures,
especially Sir Brother Sun,
Who is the day and through whom You give us light.

St. Francis of Assisi

The Canticle of Brother Sun

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Francis of Assisi. Cantico di frate Sole [Canticle of Brother Sun]. c. 1226.

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Francis of Assisi. Canticle of the Sun, illustrated by Fiona French. Ignatius Press, 2006.

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Yoshida Kenko. Tsurezuregusa [Essays in Idleness]. c. 1332, ch. 13.

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Yoshida Kenko. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press, 1998, ch. 13.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

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Merton, Thomas. No Man Is an Island. Clonmore & Reynolds/Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma. c. 550.

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine. North Point Press, 1989.