Therein lies the incongruity between progressive self-flagellants and the rest of us. What they consider introspectively virtuous and pious, we view as weak and self-loathing.

Be open to perceiving a physical condition as a chance to get closer to God.

Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived.

When I am doing music, I sometimes become over-compulsive to ‘always make some new music. I think I am like this because I sense what others are perceiving me as. If I work extraordinarily hard because of these expectations, I will, but I just cannot produce the good music that I want.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice.

Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.