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"To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all our attainments." Abraham Joshua Heschel, Jewish theologian |
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"In each of us is a seed of understanding. That seed is God." Thich Nhat Hanh, Buddhist author and activist |
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"Your encounters with others reveal your connection with the Oneness." |
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"Let Spirit flow through you in little acts of kindness, brief words of encouragement, and manifold expressions of courtesy. These deeds will add to the planet's fund of good will." |
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"I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world." Mother Teresa |
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"The Great Spirit is the life that is in all things – all creatures and plants and even rocks and the minerals. All things – and I mean all things – have their own will and their own way and their own purpose." Rolling Thunder, Native American elder |
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"Take good care of the best that is within you. Self-exploration and personal growth continue throughout our lifetimes and equip us to tend to the needs of others." |
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"Accept that you are a child of God. Sing your own song with gusto. Fulfill your mission as a copartner with the Holy One in the unfolding drama of the universe." |
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"The world is alive and moving toward you with rare epiphanies and wonderful surprises. Remember you are standing on holy ground." |
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"If I deny the oneness of man, I deny the oneness of God. Therefore I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity, I am hungry and incomplete." Norman Cousins, American editor |
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"Fall in love over and over again every day. Love your family, your neighbors, your enemies and yourself. And don't stop with humans. Love animals, plants, stones, even the galaxies." |
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"All the inhabitants of the world – the trees, flowers, fields, streams, hills, rocks, dolphins, bears, birds, and babies – are our relations, as Native Americans express it." |
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"The universe is a great system of vibrations we draw to us by our feelings: fear draws fear, love draws love." Lynne Sharon Schwartz, novelist, 'Fatigue Artist' |
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"The real world…is not a world of isolate things, but of processes in concert." William Bryant Logan, 'Dirt' |
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"The interrelationship of all of Creation is sensitive in a way we are just beginning to understand." Madeleine L'Engle, 'A Stone for a Pillow' |
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"Accept the mystery of being loved by the Divine Magnet." |
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"It is very significant indeed that physics now sees the whole universe as a web of dynamic interrelationships. When we come to the human person, our lives are also a network of interrelationships." Bede Griffiths |
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"To pray is to move to the center of all life and all love. The closer I come to the hub of life, the closer I come to all that receives its strength and energy from there….What does the hub represent? I think of it as my own heart, the heart of God, and the heart of the world. When I pray, I enter into the depth of my own heart and find there the heart of God, who speaks to me of love. And I recognize, right there, the place where all of my sisters and brothers are in communion with one another." Henri J. M. Nouwen, Catholic author, 'Here and Now' |
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"Anything can become a disclosure of grace. We experience intimations of the divine in a lover's embrace, a rainbow, a baby's smile, a bird's flight overhead, a friend's forgiveness, a dolphin's leap, or the selfless service of a volunteer." |
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"Looking deeply at any one thing, we see the whole cosmos. The one is made of the many." |
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"What are things? They are God's love become things. God communicates with us by way of all things. They are messages of love." Ernesto Cardenal, 'Abide in Love' |
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"The moving finger of God in human history points ever in the same direction. There must be community." Howard Thurman |
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"Life is a sacred adventure. Every day we encounter signs that point to the active presence of Spirit in the world around us." |
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"God is creating the entire universe, fully and totally in the present now." Meister Eckhart, 13th century mystic |
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"We obviously have close ties to partners, family, and friends, but we are also part of layers and layers of communities." |