Light Moment: 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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It is better to have less if it is with peace of mind than to have abundant wealth but with a tormented spirit.

- Ecclesiastes

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Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

- Tao Te Ching

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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.

- Carl Sandburg

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese proverb

Friends share with us what they think and feel. Teachers teach us what to do and how to do it. Coaches ask us who we want to be. Mentors show us who we can be. Masters show us who we really are. We are all masters of the game.

~ Masami Sato

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Truth is the "light" by which to find your way out of darkness. Turn it on.

- Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.

~Aristotle

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If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

~ The Dalai Lama

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“Waste no more time repining for what is over and done, but make the present and the future a splendid realization of your heart’s desire.”

- Emmet Fox

Happy New Year from Light Moment & Spiritual Care Services!

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Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

- Matthew 11:28-29

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The Blessing of Unanswered Prayers

I asked for strength that I might achieve;
I was made weak that I might learn humbly to obey.
I asked for health that I might do greater things;
I was given infirmity that I might do better things.
I asked for riches that I might be happy;
I was given poverty that I might be wise.
I asked for power that I might have the praise of men;
I was given weakness that I might feel the need of God.
I asked for all things that I might enjoy life;
I was given life that I might enjoy all things.
I got nothing that I had asked for,
but everything that I had hoped for.
Almost despite myself my unspoken prayers were answered;
I am… most richly blessed.

- Unknown Confederate soldier

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“My life is my message.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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“I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.”

- Alex Haley

We are in the middle of the seven-day African American and Pan-African holiday know as Kwanzaa. For more information, please consider:

http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml

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

Friday, December 23, 2011

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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

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If you want to help pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get a little dirty.

- Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer

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Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

~Calvin Coolidge

For most Western Christians, today is the celebration of Christmas. For more information, consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas

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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

~ Malcolm S. Forbes

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Let us love the world to peace.

~ Eileen Elias Freeman

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.

- Nachum Braverman

This evening begins the 3^rd night of the Jewish Festival of Hanukkah. For more information, please consider the following sources:

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

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

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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

~ Vince Lombardi

Friday, December 16, 2011

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It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven.

~ Jessi Lane Adams

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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

~Lucy Larcom

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Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

~ Jean de Boufflers

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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

~ Søren Aabye Kierkegaard

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Faith can move mountains, but don't be surprised if God hands you a shovel.

~ Unknown

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

- Thich Nhat Hanh

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

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Turn inward, toward the heart, and delight in the green shade of trees and many gushing springs.

- Rumi

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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We can never live in the past as if it were our true home. And it is a good thing that God draws this veil over the past even without our asking. In so doing, [God] allows us to live today for tomorrow with just the few memories we need of what was.

- Karl Barth

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Our greatest fears can become our greatest accomplishments.

~ Tara Taylor

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“One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along.”

- Michelle Blake

Today is the 3^rd Sunday in Advent, the Christian season of preparation for Christmas. For more information about this observance, please consider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent

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The best way to predict the future is to create it.

~ Peter Drucker

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The quieter you are the more you can hear

~ Baba Ram Dass

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And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

- I Corinthians 13:13

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Our noblest act is to practice unconditional love, especially with ourselves. It's the soil of our goodness. We may feel afraid, we may feel unworthy, we may think, “I couldn't possibly love that part of myself.” But dear one, I assure you: the heart is big enough.

~ Karly Pitman

Friday, December 2, 2011

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I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

- George Burns

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The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.

- Daniel Berrigan,

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You win some, you lose some, and some get rained out, but you gotta suit up for them all.

- J. Askenberg

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Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark.

~ George Iles

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“What a tremendous relief it should be ... to discover that we don’t need to prove ourselves to God.”

- Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier.

~ unknown

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