“ Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ”
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“ Doing a three-minute meditation every day may change your life: It is the gateway drug to slowing down. ”
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“ On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight. ”
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“ Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. ”
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“ I don’t remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don’t even know exist until you love a child. ”
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“ This aspect of reality, this weird scary aspect of life, can just wreck everything if you don’t figure out at some point that it is what makes life so profound, meaningful, rich, complex, wild. ”
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“ Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ”
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“ Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. ”
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“ Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past. ”
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“ Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ”
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“ I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world. ”
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“ Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die. ”
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“ I don't remember who said this, but there really are places in the heart you don't even know exist until you love a child. ”
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“ Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us. ”
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“ Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each steppingstone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it. ”
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“ E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard. ”
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“ It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do. ”
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“ We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this. ”
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“ E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard. ”
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“ Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are. ”
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“ I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and to be blown away by the beauty and miracle of nature. You just have to get rid of so much baggage to be light enough to dance, to sing, to play. You don't have time to carry grudges; you don't have time to cling to the need to be right. ”
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“ Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you praywith your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom. ”
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“ The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. ”
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“ ...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you. ”
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