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"If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully."
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"When you are mindfully focused, the person with whom you are communicating feels that you are making them a priority-that you value their time and their perspective. It is in these moments that we can go to deeper levels of discovery, exploration, and connection. It is one of the most valuable gifts and finest compliments you can give to another."
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"A lack of engagement sends the message that you may not care, are not interested, are too busy, or that the other person does not matter to you. Even though this is rarely your intention, it can happen when you're not being mindful and deliberate to connect in the moment."
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Personal Development
"Always live in active consciousness."
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Personal Development
"Since we cling to our hope in the future, we do not focus our energies and capabilities on the present moment."
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Personal Development
"What do confidence and command look like when you see them? Moving one step past a healthy self-esteem, they project an air of authority, respect, and deliberate intention."
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Personal Development
"To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think."
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Personal Development
"If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration, but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present."
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Personal Development
"The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow."
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Personal Development
"Then she tells me that Jesus isstill herebecause Jesus wasonce here.And parts of Jesus arestill floating in the air.She tells me Jesus' DNA ispart of the collective DNA.She tells we are all partof Jesus, we are all Jesus in part.She tells me to breathe deepduring all our stormsbecause you can sometimes taste Jesusin a good, hard rain."
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Personal Development
"Your presence is the greatest gift you can offer."
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"We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little courage, so that if you decide, "I will not stay in rooms where women are belittled; I will not stay in company where races, no matter who they are, are belittled; I will not take it; I will not sit around and accept dehumanising other human beings: - if you decide to do that in small ways, and you continue to do it - finally you realize you've got so much courage. Imagine it - you've got so much courage that people want to be around you. They get a feeling that they will be protected in your company."
Courage
"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."
Gratitude
"Segregation shaped me education liberated me."
Education
"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."
Gratitude
"We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!"
Self
"Effective action is always unjust."
Justice
"I'm young as morningand fresh as dew.Everybody loves meand so do you."
Youth
"It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
Faith
"Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry."
Art
"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
Respect
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