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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result.
— Ramana Maharshi
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They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of…
— Bella Abzug
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For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another…
— H. Burke Peterson
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It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that…
— Aldous Huxley
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[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We…
— Kate Millett
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We come to feel as we behave.
— Paul Pearsall
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What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the…
— Tom Robbins
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We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The…
— Billy Childish
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It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to…
— Dean L. Larsen
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It’s been very well demonstrated that our belief system effects how we behave and how we perform. . . It also effects…
— Edgar Mitchell
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