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There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live.

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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

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There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

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Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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I weigh the sea

I weigh the storm

I weigh a thousand stories long.

I weigh my mother's fortitude and my father's eyes

I weigh the way they look at me with pride

I weigh strength and fearless and the warrior in me.

I weigh all the pain and trauma that made me see

that I have more galaxies inside me than tragedies.

We all weigh joys and darkness and goodness and sin

you see, we are infinite within this skin we are in.

So when they ask you what you weigh

you don't need to look down at any scale.

Instead, simply tell them the truth,

tell them how you

weigh whole universes

and storms and scars and stories too.

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Individual objects and selves are appearances of the one reality, the one infinite, indivisible being. All that is necessary is to understand this, to feel this and to lead a life to the best of our ability in a way that is consistent with and an expression of this felt understanding.

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Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.

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The Word

Down near the bottom

of the crossed-out list

of things you have to do today,

between “green thread”

and “broccoli” you find

that you have penciled “sunlight.”

Resting on the page, the word

is beautiful, it touches you

as if you had a friend

and sunlight were a present

he had sent you from some place distant

as this morning—to cheer you up,

and to remind you that,

among your duties, pleasure

is a thing

that also needs accomplishing.

Do you remember?

that time and light are kinds

of love, and love

is no less practical

than a coffee grinder

or a safe spare tire?

Tomorrow you may be utterly

without a clue

but today you get a telegram,

from the heart in exile

proclaiming that the kingdom

still exists,

the king and queen alive,

still speaking to their children,

—to any one among them

who can find the time,

to sit out in the sun and listen.

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You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

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All shall be well for there is a force of love moving through the universe that holds us fast and will never let us go by.

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Baby souls see what's wrong.

Young souls see what's right.

But old souls, feel only love.

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Most people in your life were only meant for dreams, and summer laughter. They stay till the wind changes, the tides turn, or disappear with the first snow. And then there are some that were forged to weather blizzards and pain with you. They were cast in iron, set in gold and never ever leave you to face anything alone. Know who those people are. And love them the way they deserve. Not everyone in your life is temporary. A few are as permanent as love is old.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE CHAPTERS

I

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in.

I am lost ... I am hopeless.

It isn't my fault.

It takes forever to find a way out.

II

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend I don't see it.

I fall in again.

I can't believe I'm in the same place. But it isn't my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

III

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I see it is there.

I still fall in ... it’s a habit.

My eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

IV

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I walk around it.

V

I walk down another street.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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Who You Are

Who you are is so much more than what you do. The essence, shining through the heart, soul, and center, the bare and bold truth of you does not lie in your to-do list. You are not just at the surface of your skin, not just the impulse to arrange the muscles of your face into a smile or a frown, not just boundless energy, or bone wearying fatigue. Delve deeper. You are divinity; the vast and open sky of spirit. It’s the light of God, the ember at your core, the passion and the presence, the timeless, deathless essence of you that reaches out and touches me. Who you are transcends fear and turns suffering into liberation. Who you are is love.