Peaceful Revolution

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   Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make
     violent revolution inevitable. 

    John F. Kennedy

Wisdom

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All wisdom is plagiarism; only stupidity is original.

Huge Kerr

Terror

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     Everything terrifying is, in its deepest being, something
     helpless that wants our help.

    Maria Rilke

Fear

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Some of the worst events in my life never happened. 

Mark Twain

Creature

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     There is a crack in everything God has made.

      Ralph Waldo Emerson

Idea

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It is better to die for an idea that will live
  than to live for an idea that will die. 

Steve Biko

The light, not the lamp

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     Worship the light, not the lamp.
     The lamps are different, the light is the same.
     It comes from the Beyond.
      
       Rumi

Your Identity

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Your identity is not equivalent to your biography. There is a

place in you where you have never been wounded, where

there’s a seamlessness in you, and where there is a

confidence and tranquility. 

John O’Donohue

Salvation

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Salvation lies in remembrance.

Baal Shem Tov

Imperfections

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It's the imperfections that make the charm. 

Rebecca Moses

Story Telling

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   A story must be told in such a way it constitutes help in
     itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to
     tell a story about his teacher. And he related how his
     teacher used to hop and dance while he prayed. My
     grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by
     his story that he began to hop and dance to show how the
     master had done. From that hour, he was cured of his
     lameness. That’s how to tell a story.

    Martin Büber

Basic Truths

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What we call basic truths are simply the

ones we discover after all the others.

Albert Camus

Belief

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Belief is grace. 

Northrope Frye

Wisdom

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  Wisdom is knowledge plus:
  knowledge – and the knowledge of its own limits.

Victor E. Frankl

Seeing

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We don't see things as they are;

we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Stories

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We often need to tell our stories over and over, not

because we are forgetful or compulsive, but because their

meaning is too great to be digested in any one telling.

So we recount them, again and again, till we can absorb

their meaning and learn to love each other on the way.

Mark Nepo, As Far As the Heart Can See

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Inclusion with Justice

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     To be “included” is not the same as
   “being fully welcomed” or as being
   “equally treated and respected.”

    Fernando A. Cascante, Journal of Race, Ethnicity and

    Religion Vol. 1, 2010, A Decade of Racial/Ethnic

    Diversity in Theological Education: The Continuous

    Challenge of Inclusion with Justice

The road to freedom

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“Why is the road to freedom so long?"

Asked a troubled apprentice.

And the master replied,

“Because it has to go through you.”

Zen story

Love

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   Love is the extremely difficult
     realization that something other than
     oneself is real.

    Iris Murdoch

The world

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The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable. 

 Martin Büber

Staying close

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   Since everything is sacred, staying close to what is sacred is
     a matter of presence and attention more than travel to
     some secret place. In essence, staying close is a pilgrimage
     to the heart of where we are. 

    Mark Nepo, As Far As the Heart Can See

Inspiration

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Inspiration doesn’t descend like a
  lightning bolt from the gods. Inspiration
  comes instead from a steady breath, a
  solid foundation, and a commitment to
  the process.

Laraine Herring

Love

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     The love of a single heart can make a world of difference. 

    I believe that we can heal Rwanda – and our world – by

    healing one hear at a time.

     Immaculée Ilibagiza, Left to Tell

Truths beyond itself

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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths 

beyond itself.

Anais Nin

The Path

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The obstacle is the path.

Zen proverb

Presence

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As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.
  As long as there is a criminal element, I’m of it.
  As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

Transformation

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

Victor E. Frankl

Practice Art

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The arts are not a way to make a living.  

They are a very human way of making

life more bearable. Practicing an art, no

matter how well or badly, is a way to

make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio.

Tell stories. …

Kurt Vonnegut, A Man without a Country

The finest things

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     The finest language is the one that is not spoken, the 

     finest action is the one that is not done and the finest

     change is the one that is not willed.

      Anthony de Mello, One Minute Wisdom

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

What you remember

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     I've learned that people will forget what you said, people

     will forget what you did, but people will never forget how

     you made them feel.

     Maya Angelou

At any given moment

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At any given moment you have the 
  power to say: This is not how the story is
  going to end.

Christine Mason Miller, Ordinary Sparkling Moments

Seeking perfection?

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     Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who

     cannot attain it in anything.

      Gustave Flaubert

Non-violence

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Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence,

so one must learn the art of dying in the training for non-violence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

I believe

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. 

That myth is more potent than history. 

That dreams are more powerful than facts. 

That hope always triumphs over experience. 

That laughter is the only cure for grief. 

And I believe that love is stronger than death. 

Robert Fulghum

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True reconciliation

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True reconciliation can occur only when we honestly   acknowledge our painful, but shared, past.

Elizabeth Eckford

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

Prayers

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That is what the world needs above all else: not people who “say prayers” with greater or less regularity, but people who are prayers.


Kalistos Ware, The Power of the Name

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

Ultimate freedom

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When you are depraved of all freedom … you still have the most important freedom of all, which no one can take away from you: that is the freedom to choose what kind of person you want to be.
                                                                            
Ingrid Betancourt, Even Silence Has An End: My Six years of Captivity in the Columbian Jungle

Time to give hope

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     There comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a 
     new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral
     ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give
     hope to each other. That time is now. 
     
      Wangari Maathai

Clarity

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.

Seneca

Turn

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     Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows will fall 
     behind you. 
      
      Maori Proverb

Simplicity

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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

To know you

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     If I really want to know who you are, I 
     am not going to ask what you know. I 
     am not even going to ask what you 
     believe. If I really want to know what 
     you’re about, the question I will ask 
     is: “What do you want?” 
     What do you love?” 
      
      Jamie Smith, Desiring the Kingdom