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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.

Wayne Muller

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All life requires a rhythm of rest. . . There is a rhythm in the way day dissolves into night, and night into morning. There is a rhythm as the active growth of spring and summer is quieted by the necessary dormancy of fall and winter. There is a tidal rhythm, a deep, eternal conversation between the land and the great sea.
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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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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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