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The smallest thing

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To study a single speck of dust is to study the whole universe

Dogen, 1200 –  1253

And he also showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, lying in the palm of my hand. It seemed to me as round as a ball. I gazed at it and thought, ‘What can this be?’ The answer came thus, ‘It is everything that is made.’ I marveled how this could be, for it was so small it seemed it might fall suddenly into nothingness. Then I heard the answer, ‘It lasts, and ever shall last, because God loves it. All things have their being in this way.’

Julian of Norwich, 1342 – 1416,  Revelations of Divine Love

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Being present

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To listen is to lean in softly
With a willingness to be changed
By what we hear


Mark Nepo

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Getting real

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work

and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.

Wendell Berry

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Touch

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Being aware of subtle emotional qualities you may be embodying at various times of the day. Pay particular attention to your hands.  See if you don’t become more mindful by becoming more “bodyful.” Everything from opening a door to making love involves touch. It is possible to open a door so mindlessly that your hand doesn’t know what your body is doing and you hit yourself in the head with it. Imagine the challenge of touching another person without automaticity, with no gaining idea, just presence and caring.

Jon Kabat Zinn, Wherever you go, There you are

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Developing a refuge

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As I age I am grateful to find that a silence has begun to gather in me,

coexisting with my tempers and my fears,

unchanged by my joys or my pain. 

Rachel Naomi Remen

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Gatekeepers

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The words of the tongue should have three gatekeepers:

Is it true?

Is it kind?

Is it necessary?”

 Sufi Proverb