Quote - Heart

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There are barricades around the heart asking to be breached. Sooner or later we all run out of excuses for staying small and safe.   ~Danna Faulds

Quote - Uncovering the Whisper

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Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper, realizing that it's a passing memory, and moving closer to all those fears and all those edgy feelings that maybe you're not okay.
Well, no big deal. None of us is okay and all of us are fine. It's not just one way. We are walking, talking paradoxes.  ~Pema Chödrön

Quote - Destination

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One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.  ~Henry Miller

Quote - Empathy

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The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

~Meryl Streep

Quote - Praise

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The fire has its flame and praises God. 

The wind blows the flame and praises God. 

In the voice we hear the word which praises God. 

And the word, when heard, praises God.

So all of creation is a song of praise to God. 

~Hildegard of Bingen

Quote - Movements of Dance

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The existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds.

To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at the movements of a dance.

A lifetime is like a flash of lightning in the sky, 

Rushing by, like a torrent down a steep mountain.  ~Buddha

Quote - The Heart Appoints

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I will not hide my tastes or aversions.

I will so trust that what is deep is holy, 

that I will do strongly before the sun and moon 

whatever only rejoices me, 

and the heart appoints.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quote - Happiness

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The point of life is happiness.  ~The Dalai Lama

Quote - Great Moments

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When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.  ~Boris Pasternak

Quote - Seeking

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What you seek is seeking you.  ~Rumi

Quote - Destiny

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As is your desire, so is your will.

As is your will, so is your deed.

As is your deed, so is your destiny.

~The Upanishads

Quote - Choosing

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I chose and my world was shaken. So what? 

The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not.

~Stephen Sondheim

Quote - Growth

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We do not make or create our souls, we just grow them up.  ~Richard Rohr

Quote - Life

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All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.  ~M.C. Richards

Quote - Vision

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Without vision, we perish.  ~Proverbs

Quote - No Easy Walk

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There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.  ~Nelson Mandela

Quote - Like a Bird

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Like a bird with broken wing

that has traveled through wind for years . . .

I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

~George Seferis

Quote - Desire

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Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.   ~Sigmund Freud

Quote - Light

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There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.   ~Leonard Cohen

Quote - Dance

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Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance.  ~T.S. Eliot