When a flower pot is too full, if one inclines it to the left or to the right, its contents fall, but if kept vertical, heavenwards, it remains full.
(Locution to Gabriela Bossis, God's Spiritual Direction (Messages from Heaven). Transl. Fr Adolf Faroni, SDB. Manila: Don Bosco Press, 2000, p 23)
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