Kathleen Norris Quotes - Page 3

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• Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.

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  World, Monk, Poet

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• Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

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  Change, Kind, Prairie

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

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  Life, Men, Eternity

  Kathleen Norris (1981). “The middle of the world”

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• They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

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  Pregnancy, Fruit, Melons

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• Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

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  Book, Reading, Shining

  Kathleen Thompson Norris (1955). “The Best of Kathleen Norris”, Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House, 1955 .

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• The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.

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  Moving, Heart, Hatred

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• When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

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  Children, Book, Pride

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• When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

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  Women, Memorable, Unhappy

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• To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

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  Humility, Exercise, Self

  Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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