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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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• Constantly practice the habit of inwardly gazing upon God. You know that something inside your heart sees God. Even when you are compelled to withdraw your conscious attention in order to engage in earthly affairs, there is within you a secret communion always going on.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Order, Practice

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• Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

  Julian Barnes

  Art, Reading, Skills

  "Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile" by Julian Barnes, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

  Cyril Connolly

  Nature, Ideas, Gains

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• In this noisy, restless, bewildering age, there is a great need for quietness of spirit. Even in our communion with God we are so busy presenting our problems, asking for help, seeking relief that we leave no moments of silence to listen for God's answers. By practice we can learn to submerge our spirits beneath the turbulent surface waves of life and reach that depth of our being where all is still, where no storms can reach us. Here only can we forget the material world and its demands on us.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Wave Of Life, Asking For Help, Practice

  Alice Hegan Rice (2013). “My Pillow Book”, p.29, Read Books Ltd

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• I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

  Joe Queenan

  Christian, Jesus, Sunday

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• Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification.

  Omar Sharif

  Sex, Passion, Making Love

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• The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Lying, Heart, Likes And Dislikes

  Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.1070, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

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• I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Spiritual, Age, Firsts

  "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.

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• Sex could be a blissful communion,. But it could also be a weapon, and its absence, sometimes, was required for the establishment of peace.

  Ann Brashares

  Peace, Sex, Weapons

  Ann Brashares (2005). “Girls in Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood”, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Exercise, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

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• Just as in a physical body the operation of one member contributes to the good of the whole body, so it is in a spiritual body such as the Church. And since all the faithful are one body, the good of one member is communicated to another; everyone members, as the Apostle says, of one another [Eph 4:25]. For that reason, among the points of faith handed down by the Apostles, is that there is a community of goods in the Church, and this is expressed in the words Communion of Saints.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Spiritual, Community, Faithful

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• She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

  William Blake

  Marriage, Solitude, Earth

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• The cry for love and communion and for recognition that rises from the hearts of people in need reveals the fountain of love in us and our capacity to give life.

  Jean Vanier

  Heart, People, Giving

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.98, Paulist Press

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• Isn't it sad, that in a time when we face so many devastating problems - poverty, HIV/AIDS, war and conflict - that in our Communion we should be investing so much time and energy on disagreement about sexual orientation? [The Communion, which] used to be known for embodying the attribute of comprehensiveness, of inclusiveness, where we were meant to accommodate all and diverse views, saying we may differ in our theology but we belong together as sisters and brothers [now seems] hell-bent on excommunicating one another. God must look on and God must weep.

  Desmond Tutu

  Brother, War, Views

  "In the Eye of the Storm: Swept to the Center by God". spectrummagazine.org. May 11, 2008.

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• As two pieces of wax fused together make one so he who receives Holy Communion is so united with Christ that Christ is in him and he is in Christ.

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Two, Together, Pieces

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• We do not go to Holy Communion because we are good; we go to become good.

  John Bosco

  Holy, Holy Communion

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• If any occupation or association is found to hinder our communion with God or our enjoyment of spiritual things, then it must be abandoned. Anything in my habits or ways which mars happy fellowship with the brethren or robs me of power in service, is to be unsparingly judged and made an end of-'burned.' Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Spiritual, Mars, Occupation

  Arthur W. Pink (2001). “A W Pink's Studies in the Scriptures, 1928-29”, p.72, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no love in your heart. You could spend your life feeding the poor and still not make it because your karma required you to bear and nurture children. The path home to God is different for every person. Only communion with your Higher Self will reveal your path to you.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Karma, Children, Home

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• At communion we ought to ask for the remedy of the vice to which we feel ourselves most inclined.

  Philip Neri

  Vices, Feels, Remedy

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.51, St Athanasius Press

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• The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Long, Silence, Solitude

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.205, Shambhala Publications

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• From my point of view, humanity is one living being. Male-female - we complement each other in a sacred communion. But once again, respect is the key. Respect is what makes the sacred communion possible.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Keys, Views, Humanity

  "Wisdom Keeping Traditions of don Miguel Ruiz and don Jose". Interview with Kala Ambrose, www.exploreyourspirit.com.

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• Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Children, Race, Evil

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.39, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• If the Angels could envy, they would envy us for Holy Communion.

  Pope Pius X

  Angel, Envy, Holy

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• I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Pain, Sweat, Each Day

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