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“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”

- James Earl Jones

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“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

- Jimmy Dean

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“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

- Mother Teresa

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“We only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. So stop. Try something you’ve never tried. Teach it. Do it. Risk it.”

- Jon Blais

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Some people asked a Sufi master, "Which is better, courage or generosity?" The Sufi master replied, "Those who are generous have no need for courage."

- Sadi, "Gulistan"

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Solitude is the place of purification.

- Martin Buber

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“The foolish [person] seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his [or her] feet.”

- James Oppenheim

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“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”

- Anne Lamott

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“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.”

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh

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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