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“From wonder into wonder existence opens.”

- Lao Tzu

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“Happiness is not the absence of problems; but the ability to deal with them.”

- Jack Brown

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“A few are guilty, all are responsible.”

- Rabbi Theodore Joshua Heschel

Yesterday evening began Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. For more information, please consider the following sources:

www.jewfaq.org/holiday4.htm

http://www.holidays.net/highholydays/yom.htm

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“Truly great friends are hard to find,

difficult to leave,

and impossible to forget.”

- author unknown

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“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”

- Calvin & Hobbes

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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”

- Ellen Parr

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To the fearful eye, all is threatening.

To the greedy eye, everything can be possessed.

To the judgmental eye, everything is closed in definitive frames.

To the resentful eye, everything is begrudged.

To the indifferent eye, nothing calls or awakens.

To the inferior eye, every else is greater.

To the loving eye, everything is real.

- Anam Cara by John O'Donohue pp 62-64

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“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”

- Maya Angelou

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“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom”

- Greek proverb

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“Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another.”

- Muhammad

We are in the midst of the Muslim holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Festival of the Breaking of the Fast) which marks the end of Ramadan. For more information, please consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_ul-Fitr or http://islam.about.com/od/ramadan/f/eid_fitr.htm

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The future depends on what we do in the present.

- Mahatma Gandhi

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May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year

(L’shanah tovah tikatev v’taihatem)

- A Rosh Hashanah Greeting

Sundown yesterday began the Jewish holy time of Rosh Hashanah. For more information on this special time, please consider: http://www.jewfaq.org/holiday2.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosh_Hashanah

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Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.

- Socrates

Painting entitled “Friendship Circle” by Laila Campbell. For more of her work, please go to http://www.members.shaw.ca/lailacampbell/index.html

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There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it.

- The Zohar

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“See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.”

- Mother Teresa

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“On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.”

- Mark Twain

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May your joys be as bright as the morning, and your sorrows merely be shadows that fade in the sunlight of love. May you have enough happiness to keep you sweet, enough trials to keep you strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, and enough hope to keep you happy.

- Irish Blessing

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“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”

- Tom Krause

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“Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less.”

- Rick Warren

Eric & Kathy’s 36 Hour Radiothon is still going strong until 6PM today!

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“Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”

- Vesta M. Kelly

Pictured above is an award winning snow sculpture built in Harbin, China. The sculpture is about 115 feet high and 656 feet long. That’s like 4 Olympic size swimming pools!

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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

- Samuel Johnson

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“Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.”

- Golda Meir

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“We read to know we are not alone.”

- C.S. Lewis

Today is International Literacy Day. Share a book with someone special!

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“Don't measure a [person’s] success by how high he [or she] climbs but how high he [or she] bounces when he [or she] hits bottom.”

- General George S. Patton

Happy Labor Day!

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“A child needs a grandparent, anybody's grandparent, to grow a little more securely into an unfamiliar world.”

~Charles and Ann Morse

Happy Grandparents Day!

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“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

- Lou Holtz

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“When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

- Peace Pilgrim

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And what does the Holy One require of you?

To act justly and to love mercy

and to walk humbly with your God.

- Micah 6:8b

Pictured above are students from a local chapter of SAVE (Students Against Violence Everywhere)

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“Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.”

- Leo Burnett

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“The highest form of grace is silence.”

- Swami Chinmayananda