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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding --Kahlil Gibran (in Left Behind: Surviving Suicide Loss)
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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. --Rabindranath Tagore (in Merry Clayton: Beautiful Scars)
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There are eight million Shinto gods
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I have found the heart and will never leave this house of light. --Rumi (in The Way of the Heart)
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I've always loved the definition for contemplation: "a long, loving look." And when you take a long, loving look anywhere, you feel more bonded with whatever you've looked at. --Naomi Shihab Nye (in Before You Know Kindness: A Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye)
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may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living
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I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself.
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To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.
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Once the mind has seen through all fear and all hope, it finds peace within itself, in a state of awareness beyond thought. --Alan Watts (in The Only Real Antidote to Fear)
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One planet, one experiment. --E.O. Wllson (in It Couldn't Be Clearer)
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You don't flush people,
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The soul is like a wild animal--tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient and yet exceedingly shy. --Parker Palmer (in Ariel Burger: Beyond Words)
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We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another. -- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (in Picture a Face)
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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight or freeze response. --Tara Brach (in Our Nervous Systems in the Time of COVID)
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Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present --Albert Camus (in Wish You Were Here: Postcards from the Future)
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A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. --Lao Tzu (in The World's Last Nomadic Peoples)
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own. --Naomi Shihab Nye (in Poetry Calls Us To Pause)
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. --Henry David Thoreau (in The Buy Nothing Project Gift Economies)
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces. --Henry David Thoreau (in Waiting for the Thaw)
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If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. --Lilla Watson (in My Mother Against Apartheid)
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What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. --Edward Abbey (in Once I Took a Week Long Walk in the Sahara)
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To turn within is to turn to that which is looking. --Adyashanti (in Awakened Awareness)
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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart. --Rainer Maria Rilke (in Parker Palmer Muses on the Season)
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If a stone hits a river, the river will treat it as yet another commotion in its already tumultuous course. Nothing unusual. Nothing unmanageable. If a stone hits a lake, however, the lake will never be the same again. --Elif Shafak (in How to Be Resilient)
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We want to make a difference in the world. I would call this a spiritual longing to be whole, interrelated, interconnected.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. --Ursula Le Guin (in Grace in Uncertainty)
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Don't allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not. --Paulo Coelho (in All Cats Are Black)
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not so much looking for the shape
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You can't use an old map to explore a new world.
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Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star. --Rumi (in Oh For Crying Out Loud)
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No water, no life. No blue, no green. --Sylvia Earle (in The Nature of Plastics)
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Socrates showed us that thinking the truth is not enough. Truth demands to be lived. --Americ Azavedo (in A Conversation with Americ Azavedo: The Truth Demands to Be Live)
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Elder really first and foremost should be a verb and not a noun or an adjective, which is to say, it's something that's done. --Stephen Jenkinson (in Eldering in the Age of Consumption)
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What if we joined our sorrows, I'm saying. I'm saying: What if that is joy? --Ross Gay (in Joining Our Wildernesses)
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Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. --Paramahansa Yogananda (in All You Need Is Love?)
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Restoring rituals of initiation is at the heart of any meaningful cultural change. --Francis Weller (in Rough Initiations)
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This is the land's manifestation, not a language (describing his native tongue) --A shepherd in the Thar desert, India (in Speaking River, Speaking Rain)
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Be courageous and face this moment in time consciously and with all the discernment and clarity within your power. --James O'Dea (in James O'Dea: Conscious Activism)
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You enter life a ship laden with meaning, purpose and gifts
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Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.
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Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
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Soul is that unconditioned, mysterious, untamed, undomesticated, unique individual wild core of ourselves which is inextricably connected to the mysteries of wild nature. --Claire Dunn (in Claire Dunn: Nature's Apprentice)
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The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen. --Alice Walker (in The Caribou Guardians)
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The witchery of living
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. --Helen Keller (in One Thousand Cranes)
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When memory is transmitted, it makes witnesses. Witnesses are activated people who now are telling other people's stories. --Rabbi Ariel Burger (in Be A Blessing)
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Water flows from high in the mountains
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I love to think of nature as unlimited broadcasting stations, through which God speaks to us every day, every hour. --George Washington Carver (in The Gift of Ecological Humility)
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Poetry is life distilled. --Gwendolyn Brooks (in Discovering Poetry En Route to Life)
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I speak of change not on the surface but in the depth--change in the sense of renewal. --James Baldwin (in This Land Was Made)
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I am a part of all that I have met.
Alfred Tennyson

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