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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

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“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.”

- Unknown

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The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Gandhi

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“Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.”

- George S. Patton

Pictured above are the women’s rugby team of Colby-Sawyer College

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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

- Unknown

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“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer.”

- Ed Cunningham

Happy 40^th Anniversary Sesame Street!!

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“Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.”

- William S. Burroughs

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“We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

- Marie Curie

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“If I have seen farther than other [people] it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”

- Isaac Newton

Who has lifted you up to see farther in life?

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“Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

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“To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven”

- Karen Sunde