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In contrast to how a child belongs in the world, adult belonging is never as natural, innocent, or playful. Adult belonging has…
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Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
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It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the…
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The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…
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If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around…
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To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
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When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
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The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…
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The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
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When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in…
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We [humans] are the only creatures who are in-between. We're of the earth, but don't belong to it, because we strain after…
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In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and…
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The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus.
— George MacDonald
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Compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we…
— Dalai Lama
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It's actually a rare and precious thing to discover what it is you love to do, and I encourage you to remain…
— Jonathan Ive
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires…
— Sigmund Freud
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Although it is difficult to pinpoint the physical base or location of awareness, it is perhaps the most precious thing concealed within…
— Dalai Lama
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For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.
— Cher
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
— Albert Einstein
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The most precious things in speech are the pauses.
— Ralph Richardson
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She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.
— John Green
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You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man…
— Ben Feldman
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Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.
— Gene Wilder
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Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
— William Shakespeare
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