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"When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here."
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"There is no point of space, whether inside or outside the bounds of creation, where God is not present. That is why when we ask the question, "Who's in control?" We can answer without equivocation, "God is!""
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"The sacred moment, cannot be substitute for either yesterday or tomorrow."
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"When you go home you ought to go like a ray of light-so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness."
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"To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery."
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"How ironic it is then, to realize how many of we humans are masochists! That even when we are placed in paradise, the majority of us would, by choice, focus on everything outside the present moment and make ourselves suffer by thinking about Dis-Ease! Too many of us would dwell on a past that no longer exists while everything in the present moment is wonderful. What great paradoxes we as humans are capable of!"
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"She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment."
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"I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."
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"When I fully enter time's swift current, enter into the current moment with the weight of all my attention, I slow the torrent with the weight of me all here."
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"Cath shook her head. "Now is all you get," she spat out, wishing she could make more sense. Wishing for more words, or better ones. "Now is all you ever get."
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"The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints."
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"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
Compassion
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
Emotional
"To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."
Youth
"If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."
Love
"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
"I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes."
Identity
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
Wisdom
"I learned to love my son without wanting to possess him and I learned how to teach him to teach himself."
Parenting
"I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true."
Wisdom
"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
Literature
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