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"What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possability is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos: if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski . . . Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and change. " - Leonard Cohen