Through me course wide rivers and in me rise tall mountains. And beyond the thickets of my agitation and confusion there stretch the wide plains of my peace and surrender. All landscapes are within me. And there is room for everything.
ETTY HILLESUM
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better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of discernment.
— Lewis Smedes, in A Pretty Good Person: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Gratitude and Integrity, or When Pretty Good Is as Good as You Can Be
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We would not be the way we are now. Never forget that you too yourself may be a messenger.
— #LawrenceKushner in Honey from the Rock: Visions of Jewish Mystical Renewal
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I've been thinking about happiness--how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day containing at least one moment of happiness.
May Sarton, Endgame A Journal of the Seventy-ninth year
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People who injure us are doing us a great favor because they are providing us with the opportunity of passing on the mercy that we have received. By showing mercy, we increase the mercy we receive.
— Thomas Keating, Active Meditations for Contemplative Prayer
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Even when my changes
seem slow
or are not visible
may I acknowledge
the possibility of metamorphosis
that is inherent
in my spiritual journey.
— Jean Smith, Now! The Art of Being Truly Present
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Oh... wow...
It is our right to hate the actions of an evil man, but because his deepest self is the image of God, it is our duty to honor him with love.
— Rav Kook in Meetings with the Archangel
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Too good to pass 🩷
When you have nothing meaningful to say, simply enjoy the silence.
— Sakya Pandita in Gems of Wisdom from the Seventh Dalai Lama by Glenn H. Mullin
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Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
— Hermann Hesse in The Wonders of Solitude by Dale Salwak
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I feel so ready for this 💙
There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other.
WANGARI MAATHAI
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Let the good in me connect with the good in others, until all the world is transformed through the compelling power of love.
— Rebbe Nachman of Breslov in The Gentle Weapon
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Do you have a body? Don't sit on the porch!
Go out and walk in the rain!
— Kabir in Original Blessing by Matthew Fox
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We must continue to remind ourselves that in a free society all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel in The Jewish Lights Spirituality Handbook by Stuart M. Matlins
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The Earth is too small a planet and we too briefly visitors upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.
— Colman McCarthy in Spiritual Literacy by Frederic Brussat, Mary Ann Brussat
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No punishment anyone might inflict on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we inflict on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment.
— Parker Palmer in I will Not Die an Unlived Life by Dawna Markova
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A blessing is the passing of spirit between us. It's a slash in the flesh of the ego so that the blood of the soul may be exchanged and we may become life brothers and life sisters.
— David Spangler in The Art and the Practice
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We must love them both —
Those whose opinions we share,
Those whose opinions we don't share.
They've both labored in the search for Truth
and have both helped us in finding it.
— #ThomasAquinas in "Imagining the Sacred" by Vernon Ruland
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To enter into the presence of another human being is to enter into the presence of God in a new and different way. . . . We must come into the presence of our fellow human beings with a sense of awe and gratitude.
— Stephen L. Carter in Civility
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The great lesson from the true mystics . . . is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard.
— Abraham H. Maslow in Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences
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