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Let’s choose today to quench our thirst for the “good life” we think others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
Sara Ban Breathnach, Thanksgiving quotes – www.wow4u.com/qthankfulness/
If you want to lead the world to the freedom you learned here, equality for everyone must mean more to you than domination by anyone. Justice must mean more to you than money. People must mean more to you than fame….Choose reality over image, choose people over personal profits and projects, and choose your own heroes wisely….If you want to be a real leader, you want to give a new kind of leadership, you cannot live to get the approval of a system, you must live to save the soul of it. “The purpose of life,” the essayist Leo Rosten writes, “is not to be happy. The purpose of life is to matter, to have it make a difference that you lived at all.”
Stanford University Baccalaureate Address, by Joan Chittister, June 2012.
Deep within us, amid our differentiations as individuals and nations and species, is the desire for oneness. This holy longing is found not only in the human soul but in the soul of the universe, at the heart of everything that has being. We are not an exception to the universe. We are an expression of the universe. Our longings are a unique manifestation of the universe’s longings. In listening to the depths of life, within our lives and within every life, we will hear the longings of the One that are deeper than the fears that divide us.
“Listening to the Heartbeat of God” by Philip Newell, Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation.
God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, but I don’t think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.
John Shelby Spong Quotes, AZ Quotes
We do not have thousands of years to unlearn the wrong patterns that were established over thousands of years. The exponential speed-up of these cumulative patterns of destruction means we have both to learn new patterns and put them into practice on a global scale within the next generation.
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Gaia and God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth and Healing.
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