"Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor"

-- Theodore Parker

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“I am beginning now to see how radically the character of my spiritual journey will change when I no longer think of God as hiding out and making it as difficult as possible for me to find him, but instead as the one who is looking for me while I am doing the hiding...”
“At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.”

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“The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.”

Source : Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.24, Conari Press
“A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.”

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“I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.”
“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”
“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.”

Source : Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
“In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.”

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