Just be.

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There is nothing to do. Just be.

Do nothing. Be.

No climbing mountatins and sitting in caves.

I do not even say "be yourself"

since you do not know yourself.

Just be.

Nisargadatta Maharaj,
quoted by Wayne W. Dyer in Being in Balance

Fire from Heaven

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True imagination is not fanciful daydreaming;

it is fire from heaven.

Ernest Holmes

Transitions

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Transitions begin with endings.

Pamela Seigle

Sam M. Intrator & Megan Scribner, eds., Leading from within

With the eyes closed

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Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.

Who has seen with the eyes open can see again, but with the eyes closed.

Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin

Shadows & Reflections

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The unloved parts of ourselves which we try in vain to remove from our lives project themselves onto others, forcing us to recognize them.

John Monbourquette

Do I dare?

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    And indeed there will be time
To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” …
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Question

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Whom can I ask what I came
to make happen in this world?

Pablo Neruda, XXXI

Time to think

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Sit down and be quiet.

You are drunk, and this is the

edge of the roof.

Rumi

To care for the earth

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To care for the mountain, your heart must be a mountain.
To care for the river, your heart must be a river.

Shozo Tanaka, environmentalist

Masao Takenaka, When the Bamboo Bends: Christ and Culture in Japan

The whole cosmos

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The whole cosmos has come together in order to help you to manifest it. In you, whole cosmos can be found.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honouring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection

Journey

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We are all drifting and swimming toward an unknown point that will not be what it seems when we get there.

Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers

In the Other

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In order to discover ourselves, we need to see ourselves in the other, to understand the other in order to understand ourselves, to enter into the other.

Antonio Faundez, Learning to Question: A Pedagogy of Liberation

Love

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Love is when two soltudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Beyond forgetting

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let me remember beyond forgetting
     that my life is not a solitary thing –
          it is a bit of the rushing tide
a leaf of the bending tree –

Winston O. Abbott

You

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History is already different because you are here.
The world has already been changed because you showed up.

Larry Ward

Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honouring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection

Simplicity

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I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity,
but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Seeing & Being

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You will see what you are capable of seeing, and you will be what you are capable of being.

Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers

Collective Consciousness

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Each of us contributes to the collective consciousness.  As we heal our own suffering, we also heal the collective consciousness, so that it becomes healthier, more compassionate, and more just for future generations. 

Sister Jewel

Thich Nhat Hanh, Together We Are One: Honoring Our Diversity, Celebrating Our Connection

Our days

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How we spend our days is how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

Sacrifice of love

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Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight.

Toyohiko Kagawa

Communication

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We cannot be truly human apart from communication ... to impede communication is to reduce people to the status of things.

Paulo Freire

Maturity

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Maturity is being able to decide what we believe, based on delibrate decisions about what has meaning.

Christina Baldwin, One to One

Through One

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Through one all are known.

Through one all are also seen.

Buddha

"I"

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Just as it is known

That an image of one’s face is seen

Depending on a mirror

But does not really exist as a face.

So the conception of “I” exists

Depending on mind and body.

But like the image of a face

The “I” does not at all exist as its own reality.

Nagarjuna, Precious Garland of Advice

The soul of one

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El alma de todos sólo es el alma de cada uno.

The soul of all is only the soul of each one.

Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin

Language

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It is through language that we create our world, because it is nothing until we describe it. We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we describe.

Joseph Jaworski, Synchronicity

Spirituality 101

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Spirituality 101: Pay attention! You may discover that what you wanted is right in front of you, a secret hidden in plain sight.

Parker J. Palmer, The Promise of Paradox: A Celebration of Contradictions in the Christian Life

The shadows

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Las sombras: unas ocultan, otras descubren.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin

Justice

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When some people go hungry …
It’s not food that’s in short supply …
It’s justice!

Seeing

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Vemos por algo que nos ilumina; por algo que no vemos.

We see by means of something which illumines us, which we do not see.

Antonia Porchia, Voices, translated by W.S. Merwin