"Because we do not rest we lose our……" — Wayne Muller
"Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger."
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32 Quotes by Wayne Muller
Wayne Muller has 32 quotes on this site.
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To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole…
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When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open.…
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As Gandhi wisely points out, even as we serve others we are working on ourselves; every act, every word, every…
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Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.
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The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our…
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We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion…
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In that inevitable, excruciatingly human moment, we are offered a powerful choice. This choice is perhaps one of the most…
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Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have…
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When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest…
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If busyness can become a kind of violence, we do not have to stretch our perception very far to see…
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Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find…
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All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows…
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
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