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Here are some quotes that speak of my spirit:

We clasp the hands of those who go before us,
and the hands of those who come after us;
we enter the little circle of each other's arms,
and the larger circle of lovers
whose hands are joined in a dance,
and the larger circle of all creatures,
passing in and out of life,
who move also in a dance,
to a music so subtle and vast
that no one hears it except in fragments."
~Wendell Berry, "Healing"


“We are not saints, we are not heroes. Our lives are lived in the quiet corners of the ordinary. We build tiny hearth fires, sometimes barely strong enough to give off warmth. But to the person lost in the darkness, our tiny flame may be the road to safety, the path to salvation. It is not given us to know who is lost in the darkness that surrounds us or even if our light is seen. We can only know that against even the smallest of lights, darkness cannot stand. A sailor lost as sea can be guided home by a single candle. A person lost in the woods can be led to safety by a flickering flame. It is not an issue of quality or intensity or purity. It is simply an issue of the presence of light.” -Kent Nerburn

For every sin you can find about your life, God can find a way to forgive it. For every way you have separated yourself from love, compassion reminds you that you have never for a moment been outside of loves embrace. - Alan Cohen

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Proust

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one that you have. Emile Chartier - French Philosopher

I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live - so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit. ---Dawna Markova

"And we danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and kissed too sweet, and threw back our heads and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight." -Pearl Cleage from What Looks like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin

"Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."
-- Rainer Maria Rilke -- From 'Letters To A Young Poet'

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -- Albert Einstein


"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
- Mahatma Gandhi

For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. -Rainer Maria Rilke

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss

INSTEAD OF TRYING TO GET BETTER AT WALKING ON EGGSHELLS I SUGGEST 'WALKING IN RHYTHM TO THE BEAT OF YOUR OWN SOUL' AND LEARNING HOW TO ENJOY PEOPLE WHO FREAK OUT ABOUT IT!

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." -Martin Buber

"You must do the things you think you cannot do." -Eleanor Roosevelt

When The Easy Way Is Intersected By A Path Of Difficulty - Mark A Holy Place." -Black Elk

"It doesn’t matter how long you have forgotten, only how soon you remember."--Buddha

"Nothing is to be feared, but only to be understood." -Madame Curie

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take… But by the moments that take our breath away. :-)