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Don’t postpone being at peace. Happiness is not something at the end of the rainbow, it’s our natural state. If you’ve touched this joy of being in any way, get used to it, nurture it. And as you rest in that experience of yourself, try to make peace with the version of yourself that plays in your mind. It’s completely interesting. It’s not the enemy. It’s inevitable. But a view of yourself is not self—it’s changing all the time. It’s not yourself because it cannot capture the beauty of your nature.

 

— Howard Cohn 

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."

--Kahlil Gibran

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"Gratitude is the memory of the heart.""

–-French proverb

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"I thank God for my handicaps for, through them, I have found myself, my work, and my God."

--Helen Keller

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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

--Albert Einstein

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"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."

--Meister Eckhart

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At the end of the path was a beautiful meditation area under a bodhi tree. This tree came from a cutting of a tree from Sri Lanka, said to be a tree directly descended from the one in Bodhgaya where the Buddha sat. Talk about interconnectedness!

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