Seeing

RIC_4522, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

On a clear day

I can see

so far

into

myself.

Richard C. Choe, Seeing

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

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

Our days

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

Annie Dillard

Identity

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One can't talk about a sense of place without acknowledging where one comes from.

Joseph Boyden, From Mushkegowuk to New Orleans: A Mixed Blood Highway

Balance

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You cannot balance one thing; you balance a diversity of things. And diversity is the engine of the evolution of living things, including living civilizations.

Chinua Achebe, Home and Exile

God

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God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Mary Baker Eddy

Belief

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Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson

Self

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So many of us define ourselves by what we have, what we wear, what kind of house we live in, and what kind of car we drive … if you think of yourself as the woman in the Cartier watch and the Hermes scarf, a house fire will destroy not only your possessions but your self.

Linda Henley

Becoming human

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Mensch werden ist eine Kunst – to become a human being is art.

Novalis (Georg Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg)

Listening

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Until you hear the whole story, until you dig deeper, and listen, you know only a tiny part of the goodness of the human heart.

Alexander McCall Smith, Tea Time for the Traditionally Built

Healing

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... the healing
of all our wounds
is forgiveness
that permits a promise
of our return
at the end.

Alice Walker, Good Night, Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning

Conversation with God

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The partner in the dialogue with God is not the individual human but the human species as a whole.

Gordon Kaufman

Where we came from

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Unless we understand and cultivate what each of us had inherited from wherever we came from, we could not really give the world back everything it needed to find in us.

Joan Chittister