Friday, December 31, 2010

Journey


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It is good to have an end to journey towards;
but it is the journey that matters.
in the end.

Ursula K. LeGuin

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Destiny


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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.  Destiny is made known silently. 

Agnes DeMille

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Beauty


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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde

Monday, December 27, 2010

Life, Liberty, & the Pursuit of Happiness


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To say that people have an equal right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, means that if, in fact, there is inequality in those things, society has a responsibility to correct the situation and to ensure that equality. 

Howard Zinn, Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Friday, December 24, 2010

Truth


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God revealed
a sublime truth to the world,
when God sang,

"I am made whole by your life, Each soul,
each soul completes
me."

Hafiz

Thursday, December 23, 2010

A poet


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A poet is a person who lets drop a line that gets remembered in the morning.

E. B. White

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

In Exile


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When you are in exile, you are living a borrowed life.

Alvaro Vieira Pinto, Brazilian philosopher

Paulo Freire & Antonio Faundez, Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Monday, December 20, 2010

Questions


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Will we have the courage to see each other?
Will we have the courage to see the world?

Christina Baldwin, Calling the Circle

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Changes and Transitions


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The first task of change management is to understand the destination and how to get there, the first task of transition management is to convince people to leave home.

William Bridges, Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change

Friday, December 17, 2010

Love


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Only love is big enough to hold all the pain of this world.

Sharon Salzberg

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Vision


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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Door


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Often God shuts a door in our face,
And then subsequently opens the door through which we need to go.

Catherine Marshall

Monday, December 13, 2010

Prayer


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Today I root myself in the earth. I connect to the seasons and cycles of life, the great wheel of nature that sustains us all. I reach beneath my daily life, funding my soul with the grace that underlies all things. I am grounded in life itself.

Julia Cameron, Transitions: Prayers and Declarations for a Changing Life

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Life


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Life is a series of collisions with the future; 
it is not a sum of what we have been but what we yearn to be.

José Ortega y Gasset

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Friday, December 10, 2010

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Words


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Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabras. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.


What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same.

Antonio Porchia, trans., W. S. Merwin, Voices

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Benevolence & Wisdom


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To love and care for others is benevolence;
to understand others is wisdom.

Yu Dan, Confucius from the Heart: Ancient Wisdom for Today's World

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

What you leave behind


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What you leave behind is not what is engraved upon a stone monument, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Pericles

Monday, December 6, 2010

Remembering


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In 1991, the Canadian Parliament declared December 6 a National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

We remember in horror on this day, on December 6, 1989, the loss of 14 young women, students at l’École Polytechnique in Montreal, murdered because they were women. Every year, we speak their names and the names of too many other victims of violence.

We honour the lives of these 14 women:

Geneviève Bergeron, 21;

Hélène Colgan, 23;

Nathalie Croteau, 23;

Barbara Daigneault, 22;

Anne-Marie Edward, 21;

Maud Haviernick, 29;

Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz, 31;

Maryse Laganière, 25;

Maryse Leclair, 23;

Anne-Marie Lemay, 27;

Sonia Pelletier, 23;

Michèle Richard, 21.

Annie St-Arneault, 23;

Annie Turcotte, 21.

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Moment of birthing


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Ten years ago. . . .
I turned my face for a moment
And it became my life.

quoted by Peter Senge
Sam M. Intrator & Megan Scribner, eds., Leading from within

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Story


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Story is a map of human experience. It has chronology, character, scene, and insight. A teller needs a listener; a story needs to be "caught" to be complete.

Christina Baldwin & Ann Linnea, The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair

Friday, December 3, 2010

Life


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From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Arthur Ashe

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Fear


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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living in better conditions.

Hafiz

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Changes


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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.

Anatole France