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Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling…

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It's possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation of new ones; too much money can out…
The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.

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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms… — Henri Poincare
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home… — Dalai Lama
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate,… — Goswami Kriyananda
Rich people will travel great distances to look at poor people.... — David Byrne
People can travel great distances on a computer, so why can't we travel that way emotionally? — Tori Amos
I never got tired of watching the radar echo from an aircraft as it first appeared as a tiny blip in the… — Unknown Author
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate… — William Carey
Highly creative people have a gift for connecting supposedly unrelated elements and ideas. They cross borders without regard for customs posts or… — Robert Moss
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash… — Joan D. Chittister
Tell me a story. / In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. / Make it a story of… — Robert Penn Warren
Night of Sleepless Love The night above. We two. Full moon. I started to weep, you laughed. Your scorn was a god,… — Federico Garcia Lorca

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