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- We are all born to be a blessing.
- Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may…
- Perhaps losing integrity with yourself is the greatest stress of all, far more hurtful to us than competition, time pressure, or lack of respect. Our…
- I have even learned to respond to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues, until I…
- Sooner or later we will come to the edge of all that we can control and find life, waiting there for us.
- The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.
- We bless the life around us far more than we realize. Many simple, ordinary things that we do can affect those around us in profound…
- In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength,…
- God's presence. . . is an inner experience that never changes. It's a relationship that's there all the time, even when we're not paying attention…
- To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgement, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who…
- We are all healers of each other. Look at David Spiegel's fascinating study of putting people together in a support group and seeking that some…
- Many people do not know that they can strengthen or diminish the life around them. The way we live day to day simply may not…
- Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend disbelief, to recognize…
- When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.
- Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken…
- Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of…
- How strange to think that great pain may be impermanent. Something in us all seems to want to carve it in granite, as if only…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle