Faith

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As our faith deepens,
the "container" in wihci fear arises gets bigger. 

Sharon Salzberg, Faith: Trusting Your Own Deepest Experience

Attitude

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     The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they

     always see the past better than it was, the present worse

     than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

       Marcel Pagnol

Beauty

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Times are bad and the poet is broke,

But around him is that permanent world of beauty.

James Wilhelm

Awake

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“Tell us what you got from enlightenment,” the seeker said. “Did you become divine?”
“No, not divine,” the holy one said.
“Did you become a saint?”
“Oh dear, no,” the holy one said.
“Then what did you become?” the seeker asked.
And the holy one answered, “I became awake.”

From Welcome to the Wisdom of the World and Its Meaning for You: Universal Spiritual Insights Distilled from Five Religious Traditions by Joan Chittister

Do not harm others

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All beings tremble before violence.  All fear death.  All love life.  See yourself in others.  Then whom can you hurt?  What harm can you do? 

Buddha

Childhood

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What one loves in childhood stays in the heart forever.

Mary Jo Putney

Life 4

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Ghandi