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Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower

By Rainer Maria Rilke
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While we are here, we are called on to embrace the darkness and turn life into something beautiful.

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Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope

Everyone goes through times of pain and sorrow, depression and darkness, stress and suffering. It is in the necessary struggles of life, however, that we stretch our souls and gain new insights enabling us to go on.

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Joan Chittister
2005
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Between the Dark and the Daylight: Embracing the Contradictions of Life

“There is a part of the soul that stirs at night, in the dark and soundless times of day, when our defenses are down and our daylight distractions no longer serve to protect us from ourselves,” writes beloved author, Joan Chittister.

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Joan Chittister
2015
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