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I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way, we can always give it meaning, and transform it into something of value.

-Herman Hesse

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Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves, come when life seems most challenging.

- Joseph Campbell

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Some things cannot be spoken or discovered until we have been stuck, incapacitated, or blown off course for awhile. Plain sailing is pleasant, but you are not going to explore many unknown realms that way.

- David Whyte

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

- Anais Nin

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Stop measuring days by degree of productivity, and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

- Alan Watts

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In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse, which are things that are more important than material things. They are the things, that we should magnify.

- Patti Smith

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

- Alan Watts

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Love doesn’t mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness.

- Jean Vanier

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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves, that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity and joy that lie at our core.

- Thomas Moore

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The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

- Joanna Macy

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Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

- Isadora Duncan

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Pay attention to everything in the world as if it’s alive. Realise everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

- David Whyte

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Even in a world that’s being shipwrecked, remain brave and strong.

- Hildegard von Bingen

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Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous: some are heroic, and some a fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness, meets the world’s deep need.

- Parker J. Palmer

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I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

- Jack Gilbert

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I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

-Martin Buber

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Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we did it before. Each time is a new journey with no means.

- Natalie Goldberg

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