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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 silence of another…

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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…
Our bodies know they belong; it is our minds that make our lives so homeless.
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the…
The blessings for which we hunger are not to be found in other places or people. These gifts can only be given…
If you live the life you love, you will receive shelter and blessings. Sometimes the great famine of blessings in and around…
To have true integrity, poise, and courage is to be attuned to the silent and invisible nature within you.
When you've gone as far as you can go, quietly await your next beginning.
The idea [of therapy] isn't to give people answers, or lead their bark of longing into a safe, dull, protected harbor, but…
The essence of who you are is ultimately mysterious, ungraspable and numinous-completely different from every other structure of matter.
When people get into therapy, or when they need healing, their real hope is that they'll come to the secret frontier in…
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…
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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Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives… — Unknown Author
It is strange to be here. The mystery never leaves you alone. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the… — John O'Donohue
You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you. — Deepak Chopra
The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live. — Socrates
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only… — Richard Livingstone
When I was young I spoke like a child I saw with a child's eyes And an open door was to a… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
The exchange rate between first-world lives and third-world lives in disaster stories in the media is about 50:1. — Craig Reucassel
Almost half of the population of the world lives in rural regions and mostly in a state of poverty. Such inequalities in… — Abdul Kalam
The framing of how we relate to each other within and across social media platforms will continue to become more sophisticated and… — Simon Mainwaring
That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and… — Emanuel Swedenborg
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with… — Frederick Buechner
In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world… — Lauren Kate

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