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Our ability to think is our greatest gift, but it is also the source of our greatest pain . . . Let's break out of our isolation and realize that Someone who dwells in the center of our beings wants to listen with love to all that occupies and preoccupies our minds.

Prayer is listening to the voice that calls us, "my beloved."

"To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is easy, but to be grateful for all of our lives—that requires hard spiritual work. As long as we keep dividing our lives between events and people we would like to remember and those we would rather forget, we cannot claim the fullness of our beings as a gift of God to be grateful for."

We have little control over what happens in our lives, but we have a lot of control over how we integrate and remember what happens.

the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand