Future

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     Our future is becoming,
     and it shapes us even more than our past.

        Margaret Somerville, 
        The Ethical Imagination

God

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God is a verb. 

R. Buckminster Fuller

Prayer

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I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows:

wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need.

Let me be a good animal today.

Let me dance in the waves of my private tide,
the habits of survival and love.

Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson

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Daily Mantra

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Don't make things more complicated

than they need to be.

Ali Edwards

Seeing

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Nothing here below is profane

for those who know how to see.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Reality

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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is a reality.

John Lennon

This world

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This world is too beautiful to be true,
and too beautiful not to be true.

Roo Borson, Kim Maltman & Andy Patton, Pain Not Bread

Love everything

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Love all God’s creation, the whole of it and every grain of sand. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light! Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. And once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it ceaselessly, more and more every day. And you will at least come to love the whole world with an abiding, universal love.

Fyodor Mikhail Dostoevsky

To be free

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To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. 

Nelson Mandela

Beauty

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When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. 

Khalil Gibran

Empty Handed

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Born empty handed,

Die empty handed.

I witnessed life at its fullest,

Empty handed.

Marlo Morgan