The Battle of Peace

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

  • Albert Camus

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Authentic Joy

Authentic joy is not a euphoric state or a feeling of being high. Rather, it is a state of appreciation that allows us to participate fully in our lives.

  • Pema Chödrön

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The Tight Place

When you get into a tight place and it seems you can’t go on, hold on, for that’s just the place and the time that the tide will turn.

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The Quality of Gratitude

Gratitude softens us.

  • Nan Merrill

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God’s Pardon

God is more willing to pardon than we are to sin.

  • Catherine of Siena

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You Cannot Be Too Kind

You cannot be too gentle, too kind. Shun even to appear harsh in your treatment of each other. Joy, radiant joy, streams from the face of one who gives and kindles joy in the heart of one who receives.

  • St. Seraphim of Sarov

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The Force of Gratitude

No amount of regret changes the past. No amount of anxiety changes the future. Any amount of gratitude changes the present.

  • Ann Voskamp

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A Good Traveler

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”

  • Lao Tzu

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Strange and Wonderful

“It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you and a world at your fingertips outside you.”

  • John O’Donohue

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Mountains and Oceans

“Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.”

  • Eihei Dogen

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