Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.
Interpretation
The quote suggests creating a mental safe space that provides comfort and stability in difficult times.
Catherine of Siena encourages individuals to cultivate an inner sanctuary within their minds, emphasizing the importance of having a mental refuge that offers peace and resilience in facing challenges. This concept highlights the power of mindfulness and self-awareness, enabling one to remain grounded regardless of external circumstances.
In practice
In a motivational speech on mental health, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of self-care.
The soul, who is lifted by a very great and yearning desire for the honor of God and the salvation of souls, begins by exercising herself, for a certain space of time, in the ordinary virtues, remaining in the cell of self-knowledge, in order to know better the goodness of God towards her.
You, Eternal Trinity, are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and I know through the new creation which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship.
I would rather be whole than good.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee.
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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