"Our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately that its being may rise again, 'invisibly' in us." -- Rainer Maria Rilke, 1925
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"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." -- Steve Jobs
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"Religion can be freighted with heartache, disappointment, uncomfortable adjustment and the dreary slog through the vale of tears. But I believe we can fashion the pieces of a broken heart into a new shape of belief. I'd rather endure the contortions of worship than suffer the bone-dry refuge of refusal or a spiritual life half-lived." - Lily Burana
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"Three things that will drain the life from a church:
1. A rigid dogma
2. A contentious spirit
3. A loss of myth"
- Fr. Bill
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“...some things are just too true to be literal...” — Barry Boggs
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"Everything we do as human beings is one hundred percent physical, one hundred percent spiritual." ~Rob Bell
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"Believe me as one who has experience, you will find much more among the woods then ever you will among books. Woods and stones will teach you what you can never hear from any master." — Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, The Letters
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"Denominational walls don’t rise higher than the walls of one’s tomb or sink deeper than one’s grave." ~ Romanos
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"The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination." - Alan Watts
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"Beauty is not a luxury. It ennobles our hearts so we can see infinity within ourselves." -John O'Donohue
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“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.” - Pericles
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“The Road goes ever on and on, down from the door where it began, now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow if I can...”
- J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
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"Do not ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and do that. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive!" — Howard Thurman
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Sanctuary Without Walls 