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I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

Joan D. Chittister

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I celebrate myself, the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, That's good.
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