Ash Wednesday

“Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.” - Alan Watts

"Because these wings are no longer wings to fly

But merely vans to beat the air

The air which is now thoroughly small and dry

Smaller and dryer than the will

Teach us to care and not to care

Teach us to sit still." - T.S. Eliot, 'Ash Wednesday'.

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"Nothing great is ever achieved without much enduring." - St. Catherine of Siena.

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