Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
Interpretation
The quote encourages tranquility, suggesting that divine presence is always accessible.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's quote reminds us to maintain a sense of calmness and poise, reflecting the idea that in moments of unrest or anxiety, a reassuring presence—symbolized by God—awaits us. This notion can evoke a sense of comfort, encouraging individuals to embrace serenity as they navigate life's challenges, ultimately leading to a deeper sense of connection with the spiritual.
In practice
During a meditation retreat, I shared this quote to encourage participants to find inner peace.
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
I think if we wish to live in any kind of a moral universe, we must hold the perpetrators of violence responsible for the violence they perpetrate. It's very simple. The criminal is responsible for the crime.
Stereotypes should never influence policy or public opinion.
Though I was careful never to mention it, I began to see a new dimension in everything that happened.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands... Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.
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