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“Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.”

- Sudie Back

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“It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.”

- Oprah Winfrey

We are currently in the middle of Kwanzaa.  Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration held in the United States honoring universal African heritage and culture. Each day honors a different principal of life (Unity, Self-Determination, Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, & Faith). It is observed from December 26 to January 1 each year.  For more information on this event, please consider http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml

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“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

- Albert Einstein

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”

- Charles H. Spurgeon, British minister and writer

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“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

- Walter Anderson

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You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

- Anonymous

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"It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you."

-Mother Theresa

In most Christian traditions, today is the celebration of Christmas. For more information about this holiday, please consider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

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Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

- Matthew 5:9

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People were given two ears and one tongue so that they may listen more than speak.

- Jewish folk saying

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"God does not judge you by your outward forms. It is not outward form that matters, but inner intention."

- Muhammad

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“Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The best motivation always comes from within.”

- Michael Johnson

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“There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness”

- John Buchan

Painting entitled Release the Butterfly by Sadiq Toma.  For more of his work, please go to http://www.sadiqtoma.co.uk

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“If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.”

- St. Clement of Alexandra

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“If you fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.”

- Mark Spitz

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“We are not asked to love the neighbor as neighbor, but as ourselves.”

- Geevarghese Mar Osthathios

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Know you are one, Pure awareness. With the fire of this conviction Burn down the forest of ignorance. Free yourself from sorrow, And be happy.

- Ashtavakra Gita 1:9

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Owe no one anything, except to love one another.

- Romans 13:8

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“People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you’ll know exactly what to do.”

- Michelle Ventor

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“The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.”

~Charles Reznikoff, "Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays"

Yesterday evening at sundown began the Jewish festival of Chanukah.  For more information, please consider the following sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanukah

http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday7.htm

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“If our lives demonstrate that we are peaceful, humble and trusted, this is recognized by others. If our lives demonstrate something else, that will be noticed too.”

- Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (1913-2005)

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“Embrace your uniqueness. Time is much too short to be living someone else's life.”

- Kobi Yamada

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“I have no special talents.  I am only passionately curious.”

~ Albert Einstein

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“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.”

~ Charles Simic

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“You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.”

~ Mary Manin Morrissey

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“Life is a process of becoming. A combination of states we have to go through...”

- Anaïs Nin

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The teeth are smiling, but is the heart?

~ Congolese Proverb

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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

~ Lao Tzu

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In everything do to others as you would have them do to you.

- Matthew 7:12

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“To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.”

- Johannes A. Gaertner

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“Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.”

- John Wanamaker

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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

- John Wooden

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“Illness is not cured by saying the word ‘medicine,’ but by taking medicine. Enlightenment is not achieved by repeating the word ‘God’ but by directly experiencing God.”

- Sankara

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Ingenuity plus courage plus work equals miracles.”

- Bob Richards

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“Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first.”

- Muhammad

In the Muslim faith, today marks the beginning Eid al Adha (Festival of Sacrifice).  It is a joyous time filled with prayer, sharing, and community events as a way to honor and remember Abraham’s obedience to God.  For more information, please consider: http://islam.about.com/od/hajj/a/adha.htm

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Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.

- I Thessalonians 5:16-18

Happy Thanksgiving from the Pastoral Care Dept at Children's Memorial Hospital!

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“Without wisdom imagination is a cruel taskmaster.”

- from The Shack by William P. Young

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“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”

~ Author Unknown

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“One way to promote individual and collective healing is to share experiences with one another.”

- Dr. Marilyn Schlitz

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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

~ French Proverb

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“At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.”

~ Jean Houston

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“While we try to teach our children all about life,

Our children teach us what life is all about.”

~ Angela Schwindt

Today is Universal Children’s Day. To see more about this UN event, please check out http://www.un.org/en/events/childrenday/ or the links and resources at http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/children_day/

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Love is the beauty of the soul.

-St Augustine

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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

~ Anatole France

Pictured above is a painting entitled “Threads” by Melanie Weidner.

For more of her art, go to http://www.listenforjoy.com

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“Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Abstract digital art gallery / fractal: Life is Beautiful, by d-b-c

http://www.abstractdigitalartgallery.com/

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“A loving journey of transition begins by nurturing self care. If we honor our inner selves we not only live our divine blueprint, we also embrace the richness of humanity as we promote spiritual enlightenment.”

- Micheal Teal

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“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.”

- Baker Priest

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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

- Maria Robinson

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“Moral action is the meeting place between the human and the divine.”

- Leon Roth, "Jewish Thought...in Civilization"

Today is World Kindness Day. For more information about this and the World Kindness Movement, please consider: http://www.kindness.com.au/world_kindness_day.htm or http://www.actsofkindness.org/

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“Take pride not in love for yourselves but in love for your fellow-creatures. Glory not in love for your country, but in love for all [humankind].”

- Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 138

In the Bahá'í tradition, today marks the Birth of Baha'u'llah. For more information about this holy day, please consider:

http://www.bahaullah.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_Bah%C3%A1'u'll%C3%A1h