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"You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?"

"Freedom of will is our birthright."

"Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me."

"The Offices rerooted me in a tradition where, monk or not, I would always be at home. From long ago I knew the power of their repetition, the incantatory force of the Psalms. But they had an added pow..."

"Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it."

"He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,"

"Now you are walking in Paris all alone in the crowdAs herds of bellowing buses drive byLove's anguish tightens your throatAs if you were never to be loved againIf you lived in the old days you would e..."

"My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk"

"Monastery you can't retire it's forever, there isn't music, films, parties and other crazy stuff. It's about spiritual life... It becomes harder and harder!"