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The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.

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The only real failure is the failure to grow from what we go through

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It is not too late. You are not too old. You are right on time-And you are better than you know.

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A healthy, vital society is not one in which we all agree. It is one in which those who disagree can do so with honor and respect for other people's opinions... and an appreciation of our shared humanity.

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Part of forgiving people is releasing them from our own agendas.

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If we do not like what we see in the world, we must face what we don't like in ourselves. As we change, the world will change with us.

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Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...

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Relationships are eternal. The 'separation' is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.

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Happiness requires that we give up a worldly orientation-not worldly things, but a worldly attachment to things. We have to surrender all outcomes. We have to live here but appreciate the joke.

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The outer kingdom is not our real home. The inner kingdom is our everything.

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The role of a leader is not to rule over other people, but to hold a space for their own genius.

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Sex is not the ultimate high, but the ultimate high hangs out around sex. The ultimate high is the dance with another person, played so deep down and with such abandon that glee returns to grown-ups.

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Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

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We tend to have tremendous faith in the power of our disasters and far too little faith in the power of miracles.

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Making our goal anything other than peace is emotionally self-destructive.

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The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.

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Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

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We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

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World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

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The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

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With every prayer and every thought of love, we release
the light that will cast out darkness. One light alone seems
small and weak, but no one's light is ever alone, for all our
lights are part of God.

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When we think with love, we are literally co-creating with God.

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What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

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Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

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The bottom line in love is not whether someone loves you, but whether someone chooses you.

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The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others. Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.

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Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.

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The beauty of personal authenticity can compensate for the lost beauty of our youth.

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The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

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Our greatest hope is for the experience of joy, and often we are not as smart as we think we are when it comes to predicting what would bring us that joy... Hope that is attached to a particular outcome is looking for pleasure but fishing for pain, because attachment itself is a source of pain. It is best to hope for an experience of life in all its fullness-a life that can embrace both joy and sorrow, and will still be at peace.

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