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“I have a choice.
Instead of worrying what others think,
I realize no one else
can change who I am inside.
I choose to feel proud of who I am,
even if I am different.
Because each tree is valuable because
it brings something unique to the world.
I believe in myself.
I know I am exactly as I am meant to be,
like a seed who knows it is a tree,
just…not…yet.”
― Insecurity is a Seed
Instead of worrying what others think,
I realize no one else
can change who I am inside.
I choose to feel proud of who I am,
even if I am different.
Because each tree is valuable because
it brings something unique to the world.
I believe in myself.
I know I am exactly as I am meant to be,
like a seed who knows it is a tree,
just…not…yet.”
― Insecurity is a Seed
“People are afraid of things they don’t understand.”
― The Witch of Blackbird Pond
― The Witch of Blackbird Pond
“Humanity today forms a single species and can interbreed freely. Differences in color of hair, skin and eyes are largely due to differences in the quantity of a pigment called melanin, and this does not affect humanity's essentially unitary character. Nor do differences in the shape of the eye or nose, in the shape of the skull, or in height.”
― Beginnings: The Story of Origins
― Beginnings: The Story of Origins
“We all have spiritual moments throughout our lives. That first moment you see a sunset, or a flower, maybe a piece of art, and you just say, "wow!" And in that moment of true awe and wonder, that is the moment we're all fully present, fully alert, fully appreciative, and there's a real connection made between the experience and the experiencer. There is no interpreter between them. It is pure presence.”
― Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
― Spiritual Words to Live by : 81 Daily Wisdoms and Meditations to Transform Your Life
“[Love, basically, is love of God]: a delightful and affectionate sense of the divine perfections, which makes the soul resign and sacrifice itself wholly unto him, desiring above all things to please him, and delighting in nothing so much as in fellowship and communion with him, and being ready to do or suffer anything for his sake, or at his pleasure ... A soul thus possessed with divine love must needs be enlarged towards all mankind ... this is ... charity ... under which all parts of justice, all the duties we owe to our neighbour, are eminently comprehended; for he who doth truly love all the world ... so far from wrongdoing or injuring any person ... will resent any evil that befalls others, as if it happened to himself.”
― The Life of God in the Soul of Man
― The Life of God in the Soul of Man
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