Barullo San Juan Quotes

No task is too small to not chase perfection and excellence! ~ Carlo Jose San Juan

Remember the past and work for the future...
But never forget to live today! ~ Carlo Jose San Juan

Says, he who humbleth himself shall be exalted. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

having nothing and possessing all things, ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Where there is no love, put love
and you will find love. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

If a man wishes to be sure of the road he's traveling on, then he must close his syes and travel in the dark. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Everyone knows that not to go forward on this road is to turn back, and not to gain ground is to lose. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

9. Never give up prayer, and should you find dryness and difficulty, persevere in it for this very reason. God often desires to see what love your soul has, and love is not tried by ease and satisfaction. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Many praise and bless Jesus as long as they receive some consolation from Him, but if He hide Himself and leave them for a little while, they fall either into complaining or into excessive dejection. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the spirit of love, as I shall show in the explanation of the following verse. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

BOOK THE FIRST Which treats of the Night of Sense. STANZA THE FIRST On a dark night, Kindled in love with yearnings - oh, happy chance! - I went forth without being observed, My house being now at rest. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

For its own well-being, the intellect should be doing what you condemn; that is, it should avoid busying itself with particular knowledge, for it cannot reach God through this knowledge, which would rather hinder it in its advance toward him. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

How narrow is the gate and strait is the way that leadeth to life, and few there are that find it!6 are words of our Lord. 8. The narrow gate ~ San Juan De La Cruz

David in this night says of himself, "My heart is inflamed, and my reins are changed, and I am brought to nothing, and knew not."2 That is, "my heart hath been inflamed" in the love of contemplation; ~ San Juan De La Cruz

For the soul that is blind considers falsehood to be falsehood no longer, evil not to be evil, because it puts darkness for light, and light for darkness, and falls into endless disorders. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Some, too, will not leave for His sake a place which is to their taste, expecting to receive all the sweetness of God fully in their heart without moving a step, without mortifying themselves by the abandonment of a single pleasure or useless delight. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

San Diego shaped me a lot. The visual landscapes, the emotional panoramas, the teachers and mentors I had from the third grade through San Diego High - it's all a big part of the poetry fountain that I continue to drink from. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love (CCC 1022; by St. John of the Cross) ~ San Juan De La Cruz

To endure all things, with an equable and peaceful mind, not only brings with it many blessings to the soul; but it also enables us, in the midst of our difficulties, to have a clear judgment about them, and to minister the fitting remedy for them. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

God has to work in the soul in secret and in darkness because if we fully knew what was happening, and what Mystery, transformation, God and Grace will eventually ask of us, we would either try to take charge or stop the whole process. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Love is the inclination, strength, and power for the soul in making its way to God, for love unites it with God. The more degrees of love it has, the more deeply it enters into God and centers itself in him. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her. ~ Cristela Alonzo

In his oral teaching John used to point out that the more you love God the more you desire that all people love and honor him and as the desire grows you work harder toward that end, both in prayer and in all other possible works. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

No matter how much individuals do through their own efforts, they cannot actively purify themselves enough to be disposed in the least degree for the divine union of the perfection of love. God must take over and purge them in that fire that is dark for them, as we will explain. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Sounds of a San Juan night, drifting across the city through layers of humid air; sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks, the lonely sound of time passing in the long Caribbean night. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

For whereas speaking distracts, silence and work collect the thoughts and strengthen the spirit. As soon therefore as a person understands what has been said to him for his good, there is not further need to hear or to discuss; but to set himself in earnest to practice what he has learnt with silence and attention, in humility, charity, and contempt of self. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

In order to be united with him, the will must consequently be emptied of and detached from all disordered appetite and satisfaction with respect to every particular thing in which it can rejoice, whether earthly or heavenly, temporal or spiritual, so that purged and cleansed of all inordinate satisfactions, joys, and appetites it might be wholly occupied in loving God with its affections. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Letter 33 [To a discalced Carmelite nun in Segovia[63] Ubeda, October-November 1591] ... Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love. God so acts with us, for he loves us that we might love by means of the very love he bears toward us. [63] This person's identify is unknown. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

I used to stand on the corner in San Diego with poems sticking out of my hip pocket, asking people if there was a place where I could read poems. The audience is half of the poem. ~ Juan Felipe Herrera

14. I say this in order to make it clear that the one who would go to God relying on natural ability and reasoning will not be very spiritual. There are some who think that by pure force and the activity of the senses, which of itself is lowly and no more than natural, they can reach the strength and height of the supernatural spirit. One does not attain to this peak without surpassing and leaving aside the activity of the senses. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Many beginners also at times possess great spiritual avarice. They hardly ever seem content with the spirit God gives them. They become unhappy and peevish because they don't find the consolation they want in spiritual things. Many never have enough of hearing counsels, or learning spiritual maxims, or keeping them and reading books about them. They spend more time in these than in striving after mortification and the perfection of the interior poverty to which they are obliged. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

It is a great thing," says the author of the Imitation, forestalling St. John of the Cross, "a very great thing to be able to do without all solace, both human and divine, and to be willing to bear this exile of the heart for the honor of God, and in nothing seek self, and not to have regard to one's own merit. What great thing is it to be cheerful and devout when grace comes to thee? This is an hour desirable to all."3 This purgation of the sense comes ~ San Juan De La Cruz

There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer, and also more profitable, than that of rejoicing and of action. In suffering God gives strength, but in action and in joy the soul does but show its own weakness and imperfections. And in suffering, the soul practices and acquires virtue, and becomes pure, wiser, and more cautious. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Don Juan tries not to see the skeptical winks that greet his boasting. ~ Mason Cooley

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master, is like a lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter. Those who fall alone remain alone in their fall, and they value their souls little since they entrust it to themselves alone. If you do not fear falling alone, do you presume that you will rise up alone? Consider how much more can be accomplished by two together than by one alone. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Piragua - cold syrup trickled over crushed ice - her favorite treat from her childhood in Viejo San Juan. ~ Rick Riordan

Under these circumstances, if they meet with no one who understands the matter, these persons fall away, and abandon the right road; or become weak, or at least put hindrances in the way of their further advancement, because of the great efforts they make to proceed in their former way of meditation, fatiguing their natural powers beyond measure. They think that their state is the result of negligence or of sin. All their own efforts are now in vain, because God is leading them by another and a very different road, that of contemplation. Their first road was that of discursive reflection, but the second knows no imagination or reasoning. 4. It behooves those ~ San Juan De La Cruz

The third sign we have for ascertaining whether this dryness be the purgation of sense, is inability to meditate and make reflections, and to excite the imagination, as before, notwithstanding all the efforts we may make; for God begins now to communicate Himself, no longer through the channel of sense, as formerly, in consecutive reflections, by which we arranged and divided our knowledge, but in pure spirit, which admits not of successive reflections, and in the act of pure contemplation, to which neither the interior nor the exterior senses of our lower nature can ascend. Hence it is that the fancy and the imagination cannot help or suggest any reflections, nor use them ever afterwards. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Again,7 the condition to which God brought Job in order that he might converse with God, was not that of delight and bliss, of which he there speaks, and to which he had been accustomed. God left him in misery, naked on a dung-hill, abandoned and even persecuted by his friends, killed with bitterness and grief, covered with worms:8 then it was that the Most High, Who lifteth up "the poor out of the dunghill,"9 was pleased to descend and speak to Job face to face,10 revealing to him "the deep mysteries of His wisdom,"11 as He had never done before in the days of Job's prosperity. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

He was drawn to painful thoughts, fear, darkness. And Reyna's darkest, most painful memory was San Juan. Her biggest fear? Coming back here. ~ Rick Riordan

Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another? ~ Fay Wray

When I'm not working, my family and I have a house in the San Juan Islands. We've been here since '94. ~ Elizabeth Pena

The Mexican utopia has consisted of enjoying your fifteen minutes of impunity. ~ Juan Villoro

A person doesn't have to do anything but die. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

Her face was like a party that everyone had left. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

On the avenue, dark and tree-lined, shop windows began to blink on. ~ Juan Filloy

Routines are unyielding. They take hold like lice. ~ Juan Filloy

Administering another country is always a very tricky proposition. ~ Juan Cole

Don Juan speaks of the island of the tonal as something that's in the middle of the ocean ... the nagual. ~ Frederick Lenz

Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside. ~ Michael O'Donoghue

Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina. ~ Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered. ~ Stella Benson

Hair is like a corpse you wear on your head while you're alive. ~ Juan Pablo Villalobos

Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour? ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

Each one of us is a unique event in the universe. ~ Juan Mascaro

What we abusively name the past is no more than the bright but gauzy present of our memories, ~ Juan José Saer

The nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost. ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

It's distressing when intellect can't detect its own defects. ~ Juan Filloy

19. Before the divine fire is introduced into the substance of the soul and united with it through perfect and complete purgation and purity, its flame, which is the Holy Spirit, wounds the soul by destroying and consuming the imperfections of its bad habits. And this is the work of the Holy Spirit, in which he disposes it for divine union and transformation in God through love. The very fire of love that afterward is united with the soul, glorifying it, is what previously assailed it by purging it, just as the fire that penetrates a log of wood is the same that first makes an assault on the wood, wounding it with the flame, drying it out, and stripping it of its unsightly qualities until it is so disposed that it can be penetrated and transformed into the fire. Spiritual writers call this activity the purgative way. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. ~ William, Saroyan

Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life? ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

I am not a writer except when I write. ~ Juan Carlos Onetti

You are reborn with the roses, in every spring. ~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

Where does the past go when it changes? ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all, desire to be nothing. To come to the knowledge of all, desire the knowledge of nothing. To come to enjoy what you have not, you must go by a way in which you enjoy not. To come to the possession you have not, you must go by a way in which you possess not. To come to what you are not, you must go by a way in which you are not.
John of the Cross ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want. ~ Aung San Suu Kyi

A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they? ~ Juan Gabriel Vasquez

[Barack] Obama administration looking at taking a more aggressive stance and some of the Arab countries coming together. ~ Juan Williams

Juan Enriquez will change your view of change itself. ~ Nicholas Negroponte

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years. ~ Juan Cole

Where would the would-be "purists" draw the line between native and alien elements? This whole planet was altered by the hand of man.
A birder who scorned the alien Sky Larks might stand on San Juan and salute the native eagles . . . but some of those eagles had been released here; and they were living on an unnaturally high population of rabbits, from another continent, introduced here. The rabbits, in turn, were probably feeding on alien plants from other lands that were naturalized here - if the San Juan roadsides were anything like all the other roadsides in North America. And we birders of European descent were introduced here also, a few generations back. Even my Native American friends of the night before could claim to be "native" in only a relative sense; their ancestors had come across the Bering land bridge from Asia. None of us is native here. ~ Kenn Kaufman

San Francisco, America's B-movie imitation of Paris. San Francisco, the city that ruined punk rock. San Francisco, the most intolerant place in the country. ~ Jim Goad

I think you know what? You've got to believe in yourself. You can do it. ~ Juan Williams

There are some great stories in The Second Ring of Power about how Don Juan and Don Genaro found their apprentices and what they went through to fool their students into seeking light. ~ Frederick Lenz

Kids, don't trust any radical under twenty-five. His cock tends to get in the way of his political vision ~ Juan Antonio Butler

The second cause whence these rebellions sometimes proceed is the devil, who, in order to disquiet and disturb the soul, at times when it is at prayer or is striving to pray, contrives to stir up these motions of impurity in its nature; and if the soul gives heed to any of these, they cause it great harm. For through fear of these not only do persons become lax in prayer - which is the aim of the devil when he begins to strive with them - but some give up prayer altogether, because they think that these things attack them more during that exercise than apart from it, which is true, since the devil attacks them then more than at other times, so that they may give up spiritual exercises. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

This other time, Attikol had the streets of San Francisco rearranged just so this lady's favorite show The Streets of San Francisco would be more accurate. ~ Rob Reger

A critic is a virgin who would teach Don Juan how to make love. ~ Tristan Bernard

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough. ~ Juan Marichal

I always try to do more than one or two takes if we have the time. ~ Juan Antonio Bayona

Spain is not a racist country. ~ Juan Antonio Samaranch

I'm not a predictable black liberal. ~ Juan Williams

Because to write, one must truly suffer. ~ Juan Rulfo

Today, we must acknowledge, that war has not been won ~ Juan Manuel Santos

I'm really starting to despise good -nights and good -byes. ~ Mi Juan Yu Tu

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost. ~ Juan Gris

Good friends don't have to visit each other every day. ~ Juan Manuel Santos

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last. ~ Juan Rulfo

Therefore, if we would listen to the voice of God15 with due reverence, the soul must stand upright, and not lean on the affections of sense for support. As the prophet Habakkuk says of himself, "I will stand upon my watch, and fix my step upon the munition, and I will behold to see what may be said to me."16 To stand upon the watch is to cast off all desires; to fix the step, is to cease from reflections of sense, that I may behold and understand what God will speak to me. Thus out of this night springs first the knowledge of one's self, and on that, as on a foundation, is built up the knowledge of God. "Let me know myself," says St. Augustine, "and I shall then know Thee, O my God," for, as the philosophers say, one extreme is known by another. ~ San Juan De La Cruz

Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
Don Juan Matus
~ Carlos Castaneda

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries. ~ Juan Enriquez

Really, is having your body taken by aliens all that bad? ~ San Francisco Chronicle

How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah. ~ Edward Abbey