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“I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“The natural world reveals secrets about its Creator, and God speaks to us through the wild and untamed world. Nature is sacred space.”
― David Cole, Celtic Prayers & Practices: An Inner Journey

“If we surrendered
to earth’s intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.

Instead we entangle ourselves
in knots of our own making
and struggle, lonely and confused.

So like children, we begin again...

to fall,
patiently to trust our heaviness.
Even a bird has to do that
before he can fly.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!”
― Rumi

“To be understood is to prostitute oneself”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Fernando Pessoa

“Truth is one, but the wise men know it as many; God is one, but we can approach Him in many ways.”
― rigveda, The Rig Veda

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker