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Joan D. Chittister has 93 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The vision of a culture lies in what becomes its major institutions, in what it remembers as its most impacting events, in…
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We may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one…
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Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.
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Failure is the foundation of truth. It teaches us what isn't true, and that is a great beginning. To fear failure is…
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A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation…
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Blind obedience is itself an abuse of human morality. It is a misuse of the human soul in the name of religious…
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To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away…
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Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about…
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It is a pathetic moment in the history of the human condition when the outside world tells us who and what we…
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Longing is a compass that guides us through life. We may never get what we really want, that's true, but every step…
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In our dreams lies our unfinished work for the world.
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Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the…
— Margaret J. Wheatley
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Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
— Lawren Harris
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When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really…
— Dorothy Maclean
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The Greeks had two words for time. Chronos is the time we usually keep an eye on. Kairos was our participation of…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred…
— Umberto Eco
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Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
— Lewis B. Smedes
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It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our…
— Elton John
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Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors…
— Eric Allen
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Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have…
— Jack Kornfield
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We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us…
— A.S.A. Harrison
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It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all.…
— Cheri Huber
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