Living

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I could live my life believing there are no miracles, no magic

and no deeper meaning; or I could believe that the

impossible is possible, that the heart can love in all

circumstances, that hope is infinite, promises are forever.

Leanne O'Neil

Unawareness

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Unawareness is the root of all evil. 

Anonymous Egyptian Monk

Greatest Obstacle

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The greatest obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we
  cannot change because we are dependent upon what is
  wrong. But that is the addicts’ excuses, and we know that it
  will not do.

Wendell Berry

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