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Quote of the Week Marcel Proust

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
                          ~ Marcel Proust

Quote of the Week Luke 12:35

"Be dressed for action and
have your lamps lit."
                          ~ Luke 12:35

Quote of the Week Arthur Koestler

"Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."
                          ~ Arthur Koestler

Quote of the Week Guilaume Apollinaire

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."
         ~ Guilaume Apollinaire

Quote of the Week Ram Dass

"The quieter you become,
the more you can hear."

~ Ram Dass

Quote of the Week Elbert Hubbard

"Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed. There's so little competition."

~ Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Green Hubbard (1856–1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist and philosopher. He was an influential exponent of the Arts and Crafts movement and is, perhaps, most famous for his essay A Message to Garcia.

Quote of the Week Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

~ Albert Einstein

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"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

~ Carl Jung

Quote of the Week Thich Nhat Hanh

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Meditation is not about some state, but about the meditator. It's not about some activity, or about fixing something, or accomplishing something. It's about ourselves."
                                       ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."    ~ Dr. Seuss

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". . . the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is . . . not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently."

~ Pema Chodron

Pema Chodron is an American Buddhist nun and resident teacher at Gampo Abbey, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery in North America established for Westerners. She has authored many bestsellers, including Comfortable With Uncertainty, The Wisdom of No Escape, Start Where You Are, and When Things Fall Apart. Click here for more information.

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"That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."

~ Francis Bacon 1561-1626
British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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"Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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"An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea."

~ Buddha

The Hand of Buddha Art Poster Print by Hugh Sitton

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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

~ Albert Camus

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"The summer night is like a perfection of thought."

~ Wallace Stevens

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"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise."

~ Oscar Wilde

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"Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow."

~ Sakyong Mipham

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"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."

~ George Herbert

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"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."

~ Andre Gide

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"A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us."

~ Pema Chodron

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"Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss. "

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"Smile, breathe and go slowly."

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."

~ Buddha