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"Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness. We largely give men mandates, signposts, scaffolding and appealing images that tend to create religious identity and boundaries, but from the outside."
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"Everything changes. The leaves, the weather, the colour of your hair, the texture of your skin. The feelings you have today - whether they kill you or enthrall you - won't be the same tomorrow, so let go. Celebrate. Enjoy. Nothing lasts, except your decision to celebrate everything, everyone, for the beauty that is there within each moment, each smile, each impermanent flicker of infinity."

"When we first wake up every morning, there's a calm in our minds. The challenge is to keep it there all day."

"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."

"She listens closely to the silence as though the sounds just beneath the surface are awaiting to release the significance of a moment."

"Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!"

"Think about what you are thinking about. Be aware of your own thoughts!"

"There is no past and future for those who exist in the now. Live in the moment, today is the only reality."

"Always be aware of what you are thinking. Pay attention to your thoughts because they drive the direction of your life."

"You are here.the moontides are here.and that's all that matters."

"Thinking is a sign of disturbance. When your bladder doesn't hurt you don't think about it."
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"Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens."

"Faith for Jesus is the opposite of anxiety. If you are anxious, if you are trying to control everything, if you are worried about many things, you don't have faith, according to Jesus. You do not trust that God is good and on your side. You're trying to do it all yourself, lift yourself up by your own bootstraps."

"God created us for love, for union, for forgiveness and compassion and, yet, that has not been our storyline. That has not been our history."

"The human ego prefers anything, just about anything, to falling, or changing, or dying. The ego is that part of you that loves the status quo ' even when it's not working. It attaches to past and present and fears the future."
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