Road

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Wanderer, the road is your
footsteps, nothing else;
wanderer, there is no path,
you lay down a path in walking.

Antonio Machado

All Beings

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It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of human beings. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.

Maimonides

Circles of Our Lives

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If God is in the little circles of our lives, God will be in the big circles of our lives.

The Right Rev. Mark L. MacDonald, National Indigenous Bishop, The Anglican Church of Canada

Becomingness

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Life is circles of becoming, an autocatalytic set, inflaming itself with its own sparks, breeding upon itself more life and more wildness and more "becomingness." Life has no conditions, no moments that are not instantly becoming something more than life itself.

Kevin Kelly, Out of Control

Grow the Soul

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The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it’s to grow the soul.

Christina Baldwin, The Seven Whispers

Circle of Life

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The drum does not beat alone, nor does the heart, in the circle of life.

Alf Dumont

Learning

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I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke

Hope

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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is to live inside that hope.

Barbara Kingsolver

Being Birthed

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The birth of the human heart is an ongoing process. It is being birthed in every experience of your life. Everything that happens to you has the potential to deepen you.

John O’Donohue, Anam Ċara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Life?

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Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

Mary Oliver, Have you Ever Tried to End the Long Branches

Pearl in every season

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There is a pearl in every season.

Find it.

Then give all you have to claim it.

Joan Sauro, C.S.J., Whole Earth Meditation