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In this search for your True Self you come to realize you are not so much seeking it, as it has been seeking you. Love has been infusing you along toward wholeness and creating more and more space for you to see that your life is about love. The freedom of giving and receiving love is yours, and has been all along.
Father Richard Rohr in the Course
- “The more you become a connoisseur of gratitude, the less you are a victim of resentment, depression, and despair. Gratitude will act as an elixir that will gradually dissolve the hard shell of your ego–your need to possess and control—and transform you into a generous being. The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanim... See more
Estée Lauder on seizing the moments in life that matter the most:
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“In every life there is a moment—an event or a realization-that changes that life irrevocably. If the change is to be a happy one, one must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay. Rose Kennedy once told me that good luck is something you make and bad luck is somethThis is the story of every new software innovation, and in fact, just about everything engineers have ever created.
The first Wright Bros. plane just barely flew.
The first version of VisiCalc was just barely useful.
The earliest bridges were shaky, unreliable and made of vines.
The secret of successful product development isn’t an
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The resolution comes in the Trinity, the outpouring of love in one direction. This is the Mystery of God who is always beyond any concept we can imagine. The mind cannot capture the Trinity, for the Divine can only be known in relationship. God is relationship itself: "Christians believe that God is formlessness (the Father),
... See moreDiscovery and invention
Isaac Newton didn’t invent gravity. It was there all along. He simply named and explained it.
The same is true for planets, continents and obscure species. They’re discovered, not invented.
Michelangelo talked about removing all the parts of the marble that weren’t the statue on his way to creating great art. Discovery is like
... See more“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
... See more“Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself.”
— Glennon Doyle
Father Richard Rohr describes the “eagerness to love” that characterized the life and spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi (1182–1226):
If our only goal is to love, there is no such thing as failure. Francis of Assisi succeeded in living in a single-hearted way, in which his only goal was to love. This intense eagerness to love made his whole
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