Let it be

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Possessions, like happiness, are always eluding our grasp. Instead of constantly wanting to have, wouldn’t it be better simply to be to watch and let the natural environment exist in peace? A world whose true joys and riches, continually renewed and replenished, we have yet to fully appreciate?

Frédéric Back

Life

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      How short life must be,
      if something so fragile can last a lifetime. 

        Kafka

Life

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Life is a journey of approaching a horizon that we never arrive at. 

Mark Nepo,

Facing the Lion Being the Lion: Finding Inner Courage Where It Lives,

Dive again and again

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There are pearls in the deep sea,

but one must hazard all to find them.

If diving once does not bring you pearls,

you need not conclude that the sea is without them.

Dive again and again.

Ramakrishna

Reality

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A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

A dream you dream together is a reality.

John Lennon

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

Life

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Much of life can never be explained but only witnessed. 

Rachel Naomi Remen

Silence

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Silence is also conversation.

W. Somerset Maugham

Look and See

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Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we
only look, and see.

Mary Oliver, Look and See

i thank You God

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i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes

e. e. cummings