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Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness.
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The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself--but that force is not independent of the belief system. Everything begins with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all.
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I think of quotes as mini-instruction manuals for the soul. — Cheryl Strayed
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Hey, Jackie et al, I'm fine! Just haven't been at my computer (like the young'uns, been doing everything on the phone instead); as well as dealing with the fire restoration (sloooow), cat care, an injury (recovered), and the Bar Show (yup, even with a bum ankle through most of the rehearsals). For more details, check out the Drinking, Dinner and Older Ladies threads. Politics are too distressing for me to deal with online anymore, so I haven't hung out on that thread.
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Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stiflesanger, extinguishesenvy, subdues pride, bridles thetongue, restrainsthe hand, and tramples upontemptation.George
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So good to hear a bit from you at last, Sandy and know that you are getting on — with difficulties, but you are stalwart and to my mind's eye have never backed off from your challenges.
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Diversity is not about how we differ. Diversity is about embracing one another's uniqueness.
Ola Joseph
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What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunner
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Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are
different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.
Desmond Tutu
Believe
Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich
diversity to be celebrated for the sake of unity that underlies them.
We are different so that we can know our need of one another.0 -
Everybody really knows what to do to have his or her life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."
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The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situation. It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of discernment.
Lewis B. Smedes
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If we possess our why of life, we can put up with almost any how.
Friedrick Nietzsche
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. -James A. Garfield
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Every so often I need to see this one again:
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
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The deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God
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The true Light is a gentle love which, rising in you, causes you to look on the world with understanding and compassion and respect. When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect one for another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true Light, and this true light is that of love.
White Eagle
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Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
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Can we recognize our oneness, though? And what will happen if we not only start to see that we are connected to the other human beings in our lives, but also start to live as if that were true? Would we become more compassionate if we were to recognize the same hopes and dreams that we have, there in someone else? Would we be able to help someone else feel more hope in their lives? Would we feel more at home and at peace in our own places in this world if we were to keep in mind that we are an important part of the human race, and that we have many chances every day to improve the lot of humanity by improving the life of a fellow human being, even in tiny ways?
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Our imagination is the most important faculty we possess. It can be our greatest resource or our most formidable adversary. It is throughout imagination that we discern possibilities and options. Yet imagination is no mere blank slate on which we simply inscribe our will. Rather, imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.
Pat B. Allen
Art Is a Way of Knowing
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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
Heywood Broun
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
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All beliefs are temporary and ultimately evolve to something different. There will come a time when everything you now believe will not be true for you. As much as you are sure you know how it is, one day you will change your mind about how it is. Never argue that your way is the only way or the right way. One day you will be proven wrong, even to yourself. That day will be joyful because you will leave a smaller room to enter a greater one.
Alan Cohen The Tao Made Easy
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It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter. . .The offerings of creation. . . our glimpses of truth.
Madeleine L'Engle
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What we are contributes much more to our happiness than what we have. . . . What we are in ourselves, what accompanies us when we are alone, what no one can give us or take away, is obviously more essential to us than everything we have in the way of possessions, or even what we may be in the eyes of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four
brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have
the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will
bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.
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I don't ask for the meaning of the song of a bird or the rising of the sun on a misty morning. There they are, and they are beautiful.
Pete Hamill
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Conscience sometimes speaks with the voice of society, sometimes with the voice of the heart. Deep in ourselves we always know the difference.
Jeanne Tardiveau
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The true Light is a gentle love which, rising in you, causes you to look on the world with understanding and compassion and respect. When you respect the souls of your brother and sister, you respect their lives in every way. This gentle spirit, this respect one for another, must come. For this is the generation of the one true Light, and this true light is that of love.
White Eagle
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Deep inside, our integrity sings to us whether we are listening or not. It is a note that only we can hear. Eventually, when life makes us ready to listen, it will help us to find our way home.
Rachel Naomi Remen
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We should take it for granted that no life can be entirely free from vexations, trials, troubles, sorrows, and disappointments; but we should resolve that these things shall not be allowed to disturb our peace of mind, or to destroy our happiness. It is as amazing as it is sad, that we go about largely burdening ourselves with strivings that are of no consequence and miss the gladness and exhilaration of living. No life is successful until it is radiant with happiness.
Orison Swett Marden
The Joys of Living
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