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- Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.
- Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us,…
- Every human has an unfathomable gift that only meeting life head on will reveal.
- The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the…
- For though we stubbornly cling, believing in our moment of hunger that there is no other possibility of love, we only have to let go…
- The glassblower knows: while in the heat of beginning, any shape is possible. Once hardened, the only way to change is to break.
- We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out is through. Like…
- We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in…
- We are born with only one obligation - to be completely who we are.
- We are all continually asked to learn how to ask for what we need, only to practice accepting what we're given.
- …there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.
- …I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.†(p.275)
- Whatever truth we feel compelled to withhold, no matter how unthinkable it is to imagine ourselves telling it, not to is a way of spiritually…
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