"Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface."

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The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul.

— Thomas Merton