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For the wonderful thing about saints is that they were human," Phyllis McGinley reassures us in Saint-Watching. "They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical, or testy or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven."
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do," Eleanor Roosevelt once observed, and her life was spent proving the point."
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. --HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
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Longfellow believed that situations that call forth our coping abilities are "celestial benedictions" in dark disguises, sent not to try our souls, but to enlarge them."
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Dreams pass into the reality of action," Anais Nin reassures us. "From the action stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
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In order for us to become Real, we must become lovers of real life in all its complexity and uncertainty.
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body," Margaret Fuller"
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Let us imagine care of the soul, then, as an application of poetics to everyday life. --THOMAS MOORE
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William Wordsworth wrote, "we see into the life of things." --
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy," William Wordsworth wrote, "we see into the life of"
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It's simply not an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.
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The only thing that isn't small stuff is the reason you're on earth in the first place: to find that portion of the world's lost heart that only you can ransom with your love and authentic gifts and then return it, so that all of us can experience Wholeness.
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Gloom we have always with us, a rank and sturdy weed, but joy requires tending. --BARBARA HOLLAND
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plentitude of the soul. --GASTON BACHELARD
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The twelfth-century German mystic Hildegard of Bingen suggests a simple way for us to begin exploring the richness of seasonal soulcraft: Glance at the sun. See the moon and the stars. Gaze at the beauty of earth's greenings. Now, Think.
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You can consciously decide to be happy, loving, fulfilled, generous, peaceful, contented, spiritual, joyous, calm, festive, and emotionally connected to the important people in your life for the holidays this year. Or you can, unconsciously, choose to be a wreck.
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When money is plenty this is a man's world. When money is scarce it is a woman's world. When all else seems to have failed, the woman's instinct comes in. She gets the job. That is a reason why, in spite of all that happens, we continue to have a world. --LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, October 1932
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No matter what form our job or activity takes, the content is the same as everyone else's; we are here to minister to human hearts. If we talk to anyone, or see anyone, or even think of anyone, then we have the opportunity to bring more love into the universe.
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The mystical poet Kahlil Gibran tells us, "When you work, you fulfill a part of earth's fondest dream assigned to you when that dream is born."
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You must believe your happiness and well-being is not frivolous but a spiritual prime directive.
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Reading means," Italo Calvino tells us, "[being] ready to catch a voice that makes itself heard when you least expect it, a voice that comes from an unknown source, from somewhere beyond the book, beyond the author, beyond the convention of writing: from the unsaid, from what the world has not yet said of itself and does not yet have the words to say."
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These are only hints and guesses, Hints followed by guesses, and the rest Is prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action. --T. S. ELIOT
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Our souls can never outgrow the yearning for luminous and liminal moments of Wholeness.
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Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.
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If, as Herod, we fill our lives with things, and again with things; if we consider ourselves so unimportant that we must fill every moment of our lives with action, when will we have the time to make the long, slow journey across the desert as did the Magi? Or sit and watch the stars as did the shepherds? Or brood over the coming of the child as did Mary? For each one of us, there is a desert to travel. A star to discover. And a being withi..
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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides. --ARTUR SCHNABEL
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We all have angels guiding us.... They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands.... What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks. --SOPHY BURNHAM
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The fields are harvested and bare, And Winter whistles through the square. October dresses in flame and gold Like a woman afraid of growing old. --ANNE MARY LAWLER
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Beguile us in the way you know," poet Robert Frost"
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When we feel at ease with ourselves, we feel at ease in the world.
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Cultivate gratitude. Carve out an hour a day for solitude. Begin and end the day with prayer, meditation, reflection. Keep it simple. Keep your house picked up. Don't overschedule. Strive for realistic deadlines. Never make a promise you can't keep. Allow an extra half hour for everything you do. Create quiet surroundings at home and at work. Go to bed at nine o'clock twice a week. Always carry something interesting to read. Breathe--deeply..
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Cultivate happiness. Hone your sense of humor; it's the most irresistible asset any of us can possess.
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Being grateful. That's the first step to the path of joy.
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Would that the spirit of Christmas could live within our hearts every day of the year.
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Sometimes when we awaken from the bad dream of disowning ourselves, we think that the sojourn to self-discovery is a new one. But it is an ancient quest. SOMETHING MORE "THE BOOK OF LOVE"
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Merry Christmas! and God bless us, God bless us every one!
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When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be toward others. --EDA LESHAN
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The more we allow ourselves to recognize the wisdom and truth in other spiritual paths, the closer to Wholeness we become.
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Your Christmas letter to the Universe can be the most powerful of motivational tools because it engages your emotions increasing the pulses of creative energy your subconscious mind needs to transform a reverie into reality perfected.
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Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents. --JO MARCH (LOUISA MAY ALCOTT)
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There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. --ALBERT EINSTEIN
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The gifts of the Magi. Unconditional Love. Selflessness. Trust. Faith. Forgiveness. Wholeness. Second Chances. Comfort. Joy. Peace. Reassurance. Rejoicing. Generosity. Compassion. Charity. Wonder. Acceptance. Courage.
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Eat, drink, and be merry in this season of joy.
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Pocketful of Miracles: Prayers, Meditations, and Affirmations to Nurture Your Spirit Every Day of the Year. "The seasonal rhythms correlate with our bodily rhythms.... Our dream life and inner life grow more insistent in the winter darkness.... The old year is put to bed, one's business is finished, and the harvest of spiritual maturity is reaped as wisdom and forgiveness."
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