Becoming Grateful

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My own insight is that we cannot rebuild our lives simply by constructing bigger, better, and stronger buildings.

We must begin by thinking in a more foundational way, a more radical way. We must begin by becoming grateful. 

Mary Jo Leddy, Radical Gratitude

Dream

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El sueño que no se alimenta de sueño desaparece.

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

Antonio Porchia, Voices, translated by W. S. Merwin

Humility

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Humility is the ability to see yourself as an essential part of something larger.

It is the act of living without grandiosity. …

Humility teaches that there are no greater or lesser beings or things.

There is only the whole.

Richard Wagamese, One Story, One Song