Love

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Love doesn't die.
People do.
So, when all that's left of me
Is love,
Give me away.

Merrit Malloy, When I Die

Wisdom

RIC_0965-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


Don't allow your wounds 
to transform you into someone you are not. 

Paulo Coelho

Life's Meaning

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To invent your own life's meaning is not easy.
But it's still allowed.
And I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Bill Watterson

Creature

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     There is a crack in everything God has made.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seeking perfection?

RIC_8354-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

     Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who

     cannot attain it in anything.

      Gustave Flaubert

Nothing lasts, nothing passes

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     Nothing lasts, and yet nothing passes, either.
     And nothing passes just because nothing lasts.
      
      Philip Roth, The Human Stain

Creativity

RIC_8353-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Creativity is about having the courage

to invent our lives. 

Nina Wise

Grace

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May God give us thankful hearts

and keep us in friendship

to our lives' end.

Amen.

Merchant Taylors' Company Grace, William S. Kervin, A Year of Grace

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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

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

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

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

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

By invocation

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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond all comprehension. But this energy, in an ultimate sense, is ours not by domination but by invocation.

Thomas Berry