Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one

Although it is very easy to marry a wife, it is very difficult to support her along with the children and the household. Accordingly, no one notices this faith of Jacob. Indeed, many hate fertility in a wife for the sole reason that the offspring must be supported and brought up. For this is what they commonly say: Why should I marry a wife when I am a pauper and a beggar I would rather bear the burden of poverty alone and not load myself with misery and want. But this blame is unjustly fastened on marriage and fruitfulness. Indeed, you are indicting your unbelief by distrusting God s goodness, and you are bringing greater misery upon yourself by disparaging God s blessing. For if you had trust in God s grace and promises, you would undoubtedly be supported. But because you do not hope in the Lord, you will never prosper.

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Martin Luther,

Sermons Of Martin Luther The

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of

He knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.

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Paulo Coelho,

The Valkyries

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason there of until all of the events transpire.

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Joseph Smith Jr.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days… and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

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Simone de Beauvoir,

A Very Easy Death

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace.

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Mark Epstein,

Open to Desire: Embracing a Lust for Life – Insights from Buddhism and Psychotherapy