What you say

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What you say is what you are.

Childhood saying

Stories

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The universe is made of stories, not atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

Harmony

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Who sees all beings in one’s own Self

and one’s own Self in all beings,

loses all fear.

The Isa Upanishad

Way to freedom

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The fastest way to freedom is to feel your feelings.

Gita Bellin

Power

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Originally, the word power meant able to be.

In time, it was contracted to mean to be able.

We suffer the difference.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Life experiences

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Our life experiences will have resonances

within our innermost being, so that we will

feel the rapture of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Every breath you take

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To hold nothing back

in every breath

is a spiritual practice.

Mark Nepo, The Book of Awakening

Resurrection

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The conviction that a man who died came back to life is, of course, a paradox.  But that paradox may contain the secret of its powerful appeal  ...  it speaks the language of human emotions.  It addresses itself to that which may be our deepest fear, and expresses our longing to overcome death.

Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels