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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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Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.
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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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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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What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily scheduleÂ…. This is what receives your care and attention--an by definition, your love.
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Because we do not rest we lose our way...Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.
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With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.
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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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