"The truth, as it emerges, leaves an everlasting impression. It is only when man's memory, that great faculty by which all things are embraced and explored, becomes its own undertaker, that it seems possible to hide the truth we have sensed in the event of an encounter under shovelfuls of earth (the shovelfuls of distraction). Luigi Giussani, He is if He Changes, p. 29
Shovelfuls of earth, millions of distractions, suffocate the minds and hearts of people who speak and listen, listen and speak, all the time: teachers and students, parents and children, husbands and wives, candidates and voters, bosses and employees, etc.. It is a wonderful miracle, a miracle beyond words, beyond understanding, that any truth gets communicated any time, even more so that it leave an impression that remains forever. Yet, by God's grace. it happens.
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