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There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Always Arises Being Being Different Complete Different Encouragement Forgiveness Greek Half Imperfection Love Missing Myth Need Order Our Ourselves Perfection Possible Searching Tells Us Were Would

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If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Allowed Ask Attracted Depths Feature Focused Imperfection Love Never People Perfect Person Rather See Sheer Some Tell Them Uncharted You

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The perception of the horizon is an earthbound event; all horizons disappear in space, and we are left shorn of the sweet roots that have held us to the earth, challenged to imagine what is truly present just before us, a unified and seemingly limitless universe.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Before Challenged Disappear Earth Event Held Horizon Horizons Imagine Just Left Limitless Perception Present Roots Seemingly Space Sweet Truly Unified Universe Us

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Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Away Battered Cycles Darkness Death Eternity Experience Gives Human Human Experience Life Life And Death Light Moon Now Out Resembles Seeking Stealing Sun Tracks Us

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St. Pope John XXIII called for the Second Vatican Council because he understood, as no Holy Father had in a long time, religion spoke to and found its language and symbols - its entire sense of the sacramental nature of existence - in the imagination that reveals not just the penalties of living, but the wonder and awe of our existence.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Awe Because Council Entire Existence Father Found Had He Holy Imagination John Just Language Living Long Long Time Nature Our Penalties Pope Religion Reveals Second Sense Spoke Symbols Time Understood Vatican Wonder

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The mystery of being human and, certainly, of being a Catholic lies in our embracing together the imperfect state known as the human condition. First and foremost, if we could ever be perfect or do things perfectly, we would eliminate mystery, an essential ingredient in the good life and the spiritual life.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Being Being Human Catholic Certainly Condition Could Eliminate Embracing Essential Ever First Foremost Good Good Life Human Human Condition Imperfect Ingredient Known Lies Life Mystery Our Perfect Perfectly Spiritual Spiritual Life State Things Together Would

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We may thank God that we can feel pain and know sadness, for these are the human sentiments that constitute our glory as well as our grief.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Constitute Feel Glory God Grief Human Know May Our Pain Sadness Sentiments Thank Thank God Well

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Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos that does not match the Space Age revelation of a unified universe in which the earth is clearly in, rather than separated from, the heavens. Hierarchical representations do not reflect what either the world or we are like.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Age Because Cake Clearly Cosmos Died Does Earth Either Fractured Heavens Levels Like Match Multiply Rather Reflect Revelation Separated Space Than Unified Universe Wedding Which World

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Facebook may not only propagate cyber-loneliness but exacerbate the pain of loss that estranged family members feel when they hear only indirectly, through a third-party posting, news of a child or parent with whom they have not spoken in years.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Child Exacerbate Facebook Family Family Members Feel Hear Indirectly Loss May Members News Only Pain Parent Posting Spoken Through Whom Years

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The seminary of the future must relate itself to flesh-and-blood men, or it provides a framework that only talks about the people of God but never really shares life with them.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: About Framework Future God Itself Life Men Must Never Only People Provides Really Relate Seminary Shares Talks Them

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: August 18th, 1928

Died: June 3rd, 2015

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