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In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

Wayne Muller

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Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.
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We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course ... we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.
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The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live.
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What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.
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If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath— our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.
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All life has emptiness at its core it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.
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Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships.... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.
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Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.
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Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.
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Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.
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When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.
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For thousands of years we have gathered in circle--around fires, around bodies, around altars--because we can't do this alone.
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A gift is like a seed it is not an impressive thing. It is what can grow from the seed that is impressive. If we wait until our seed becomes a tree before we offer it, we will wait and wait, and the seed will die from lack of planting.... The miracle is not just the gift the miracle is in the offering, for if we do not offer, who will?
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What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.
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Because we do not rest, we lose our way.
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The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.
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The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.
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When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.
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Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.
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We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.
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