It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
~Andre Dubus, “A Father’s Story,” Selected Stories (via Country Contemplative)
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You see, the big thing for me is to love reality and not live in the imagination, not live in what could have been or what should have been or what can be, and somewhere, to love reality and then discover that God is present.
~Jean Vanier, via Pax Christi Facebook Page
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