Letting Go

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Living now is nakedness of heart;
Dying – just another letting go.

Pat Schneider, Letting Go

Transformation

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When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.

Victor E. Frankl

Enthusiasm

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   We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief
     requirements of life, when all that we need to make us
     happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

    Charles Kingsley

Patience

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     The root of the Italian word for patience, pazienza, comes
     from pax or pacem, Latin for peace. Within patience, there
     is peace. So simple, yet so startling.


      W. S. Merwin, , "Pazienza," Twenty Poems to Nourish Your Soul, Selected and
      Introduced by Judith Valentine and Charles Reynard

Struck

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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.


Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Identity

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An organization’s identity includes current interpretations of its history, present decisions and activities, and its sense of its future. Identity is both what we want to believe is true and what our actions show to be true about ourselves.

Margaret J. Wheatley, Finding Our Way: Leadership For an Uncertain Time

Seed of growth and liberation

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Every painful event contains in itself a seed of growth and liberation.

Anthony de Mello

Choice

Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé

Mutuality 2

Everything that lives,

lives not alone,

not for itself.

William Blake