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I want somehow to tell the story of how the dispossessed become possessed of their own history without losing sight, without forgetting the meaning or the nature of their journey.—Sherley Anne Williams— To use the past without being controlled by it—that is our responsibility to history. Because the past is irrecoverably vanished, it’s sometimes tempting […]
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God creates. People rearrange. —Joseph Casey— Being alive is our invitation to act in fresh, inventive ways. All it takes is concentrating on our inner vision in combination with external reality. The components for accomplishing any task are at our fingertips, awaiting discovery. Our burdens are lightened when we understand that all situations are resolvable—no […]
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Self-determination does not mean exercising intellectual mastery at all times over bodily, earthly processes, though the capacity for that mastery expands our human possibilities. —Linda Gordon— Growth means learning the limits of our will. What appears to be mastery—flying in an airplane, for example—is merely cooperation with natural forces. Human intellect does not master natural […]
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Relationships are only as alive as the people engaging in them. —Donald B. Ardell— We receive from every experience in proportion to what we give. In other words, the richness of our lives is necessarily dependent on the depth of our commitment. Reserved involvement guarantees only limited rewards, while wholehearted efforts promise full-scale returns. In […]
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If you shut your door to all errors, truth will be shut out —Rabindranath Tagore— Since so much of the world remains mysterious, how can we rule out new possibilities? It’s very human to want to cling to the little bits of truth we’re sure of; but we mustn’t use those bits of knowledge to […]
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When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. —Edith Sitwell— Our outer behavior matches our inner state of mind and emotional well-being. Our expectations of others are consistent with our personal expectations. When we feel less than adequate because of our imperfections, […]
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Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence. —Aristotle— We find happiness with our friends, if we expect it there. The workplace guarantees it, too, if we go in search of it. Happiness visits us in our solitude and in our myriad involvements. Where ever we […]
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Although the act of nurturing another’s spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one’s own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved. —M. Scott Peck, M.D.— Those we love must be free to love us in return, or leave us. The honest […]
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Do not dream of influencing other people…Think of things in themselves. —Virginia Woolf— One sort of plan is doomed to almost certain failure: the plan we have for someone else. An experienced breeder can predict a pedigreed puppy’s future with reasonable accuracy, but a human child is quite a different matter. Any relationship that is […]
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Eyes, what are they? Colored glass, Where reflections come and pass. Open windows—by them sit Beauty, Learning, Love, and Wit —Mary Elizabeth Coleridge— How we appear in others’ eyes can become an obsession. Do they see me as I see myself? Or do they see the Real Me and is that worse, or better? Are […]