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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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Love is based on our capacity to trust in a reality beyond fear, to trust a timeless truth bigger than all our…
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
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It only take a few minutes of meditation to directly realize we are a river of sensations, feelings, thoughts, perceptions. How can…
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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In spiritual life there is no room for compromise. Awakening is not negotiable; we cannot bargain to hold on to things that…
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.
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We can bring our spiritual practice into the streets, into our communities, when we see each realm as a temple, as a…
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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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Great spiritual traditions are used as a means to ripen us, to bring us face to face with our life, and to…
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We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.
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The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.
— Jean Klein
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Most nations have some type of creation story.
— Unknown Author
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There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of…
— Brian Swimme
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When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we…
— Wayne Muller
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Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads…
— Bill Nye
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
— E. O. Wilson
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It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled…
— Jack Kornfield
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