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“Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She opened her eyes to see the pearls. She picked one up, but dropped it. It rolled…

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“What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia “Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.”

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“Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure. For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what…

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“Full minds create chaos.”

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“Have you ever considered what Adam and Eve were doing when they got into so much trouble? As I read the story, they were shopping. The forbidden fruit was not scattered throughout the garden, not in many places, not in multiple locations, but one place, one site, one location and one location only. Perhaps they just came upon it, “Oh,…

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“Planning is helpful. If you don’t know what you want, you’ll seldom get it. But, no matter how well you plan, you will fare better if you expect the unexpected. The unexpected, by nature, comes unseen, unthought, unenvisioned. All you can do is plan to go unplanned, prepare to be unprepared, make going with the flow part of your agenda,…

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“And then Jonah heard God’s voice. “Jonah, do you know what the difference is between you and the trees?” He was confident it was…

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“People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have…

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“Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school. “Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?” the students…

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“Sometimes… Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith. Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength,…

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“Comparing marriage to football is no insult. I come from the South where football is sacred. I would never belittle marriage by saying it…

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“Sophia sat in meditation on the riverbank when a student bent down to place two enormous pearls at her feet as a gift. She…

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