Michele Pasin / Quotes

The serenity prayer

In this way, we do not empower these problems to control us. We share in the spirit embodied in the Alcoholics Anonymous prayer, “Lord, give me the courage to change the things which can and ought to be changed, the serenity to accept the things which cannot be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

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#prayer #wisdom #control #changes

Adattarsi come l'acqua al vaso

Un uomo saggio si adatta alle circostanze come l'acqua si modella al ◊◊◊◊◊◊ vaso che la contiene. (Proverbio cinese)

La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( ) #wisdom #changes #nature

A seventeenth-century prayer as set for a trip

During the past few days I had picked up The Secret Chief again, and I had memorized part of the seventeenth-century prayer that had been Jacob’s preferred…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #prayer #psychedelics #religion

A small religious fanatic

‘So go on, tell me. What’s he like, that little kid?’ ‘Well, I think he’s some kind of religious fanatic,’ I confided, smiling, as I looked over my shoulder…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #fanatics #soul #prayer

Acid outflanking my defenses against religion

I think it must have been ten days or a fortnight after Anna’s cremation—it was an afternoon, I remember—when abruptly I understood what had been happening…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #psychedelics #religion #death #music #prayer

Every act of pity is a kind of prayer

Dead and naked he looked thinner, feebler somehow. I should’ve pitied him. Even if we never pity them at any other time, and in any other way, we should pity…

Shantaram (gregory David Roberts) #men #eyes #brain #heart #body #prayer

Politically correct intolerance

Pickles changed the law in 2012 to ensure that English parish councils could not face legal challenges for including prayers in public meetings, and accused…

Eric Pickles: Britain Still A Christian Nation – Get Over It | Politics | The Guardian #prayer #Christian-nation #Christianity