Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

Liberation is not deliverance.