Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 

Intimacy means that we're safe enough to reveal the truth about ourselves in all its creative chaos. If a space is created in which two people are totally free to reveal their walls, then those walls, in time, will come down.

-Marianne Williamson 
That life is worth living is the essential message and assurance of all art.

-Herman Hesse

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 When other beings, especially those who hold a grudge against you, abuse and harm you out of envy, you should not abandon them, but hold them as objects of your greatest compassion and take care of them.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

 It does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Inner refuge is refuge in ourselves, in our ultimate potential. When we recognize and nourish this potential, we have found the real meaning of refuge.

-Kathleen McDonald, "How to Meditate"

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 "Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a
separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly
understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being...
Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual."
-- David Steindl-Rast

 "I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do." -- Helen Keller

Mind cannot see itself-
Subject and object cannot be dual;
Therefore, to see the mind
You must look and probe with the eye of wisdom.

When probed and examined analytically
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 Genuine compassion is unbiased.

-His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

-The Buddha
"Authentic spirituality awakens the soul, reconnects us with the
sacred, and fills us with the passion of life. Spiritual development is not
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 I have accepted fear as part of life--specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back.

-Erica Jong (submitted by Jillin2001)
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results." -- James Allen

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