Quotes (rev. Jan. 12/12)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (gratefulness.org) ————————————– When you let go of trying to get more of what you don’t really need, it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have. When you make a difference with what you have it expands. Lynne Twist (gratefulness.org) ——————————————— Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now.  Love mercy, now.  Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

. The Talmud (gratefulness.org)

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Even if our efforts of attention seem for years

to be producing no result,

one day a light that is in exact proportion to them

will flood the soul.

Simone Weil (gratefulness.org)

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Welcome the present moment

as if you had invited it.

Why?

Because it is all

we ever have.

Pema Chödrön (gratefulness.org)

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We are the ones

for whom

we have been waiting.

Hopi Elders (gratefulness.org)

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 So much has been given to me;

I have no time to ponder over

that which has been denied.

Helen Keller (gratefulness.org)

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May you experience each day

as a sacred gift

woven around the heart

of wonder.

John O’Donohue (greatfulness.org)

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When you listen generously to people

they can hear the truth in themselves

often for the first time.

Rachel Naomi Remen (gratefulness.org)

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Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time

I am being carried on great winds across the sky.

Chippewa, translated by Robert Bly (gratefulness.org)

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To be nobody-but-yourself —

in a world which is doing its best,

night and day,

to make you everybody else —

means to fight the hardest battle

which any human being can fight;

and never stop fighting.

e. e. cummings 

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No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, 

perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears, 

however measured or far away.

 Henry David Thoreau

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With God’s help I shall become myself.

Soren Kierkegaard

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So the acknowledgement that in the midst of ourselves

 there is still a good part that hasn’t been corrupted and destroyed,

 that we can tap into and reclaim,

is most reassuring.

Anne Lamott

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Everything is connected,

it’s all impermanent,

pay attention!

Jane Hirschfeld

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Those who dwell …

among the beauties and mysteries of the earth

are never alone or weary of life.

Rachel Carson

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God is not attained by a process of addition

to anything in the soul,

but by a process of subtraction.

Meister Eckhart

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I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives,

but I will not
rejoice in the death of one,

not even an enemy.

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate,

adding deeper darkness to a night already
devoid of stars.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness:

 only light can
do that.

Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

                                                Martin Luther King, Jr.

via “A Bird in the Hand” http://blackbird3398.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/response/

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