“Spiritual gifts become spiritual assets when we use them to nurture our spiritual life.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“It’s easy to cherry-pick passages from scripture and use them for your own purposes, without considering a verse’s original context.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“That kid should have killed me with that gun, but didn’t. But here’s the thing: I was totally fine with that. Because of the way I was raised, I was fine with it then, in the moment he could have killed me, and I’m fine with it today. I suppose I could have shot back. I could have defended myself.… — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share
“Giving up was the first step toward true honesty. Giving up meant willingness to try something else, to have the courage to look at… — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“The more we see that life isn’t about an individualistic challenge to conquer or overcome, and the more we see that, instead, we’re in this together, for better or worse, the more we will recognize we need to accept whatever we’re dealt. That’s not a promise that everything will work out in the end. For lots of folks, it doesn’t.… — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share
“The way we grow up as Natives is that we take that pain and weave it into our lives. We welcome the pain in, because there’s nothing you can do to change it, and by its very existence, the pain has already changed you. We take the pain in, because there is no way you can really compartmentalize or segregate… — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share
“Forgiveness is a process of rebuilding of people’s lives to learn to live in reconciliation with each other, despite what happened.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“maybe community is everyone, and the delineations we impose are really artificial.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us. Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the… — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share
“forgiveness isn’t a feeling, it’s a deliberate act of faith and a choice.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
“when we recognize how much we have received from others, we begin to see our lives as a gift.” — Daniel D. Maurer Copy Share Image
