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If we allow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things are extraordinary.
Southwest Chapter of Canine Companions for Independence.
“Protracted self-promotion drains something essential from the soul,
This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs, and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.
Envy infects the human heart; if we envy, next we covet, and what we covet becomes the object of our all-consuming avarice.
Consciously and unconsciously, the intelligent being searches for meaning and seeks its purpose. This effort cannot be pointless,
Intuition is a higher form of knowledge than instinct. It is a direct perception of truth or fact,
Intuition also includes perceptions of space and spatial relationships, and an awareness of time.
am born to die, but I trust that I die to live again.
cherish what you love while you have it, so that when it passes, you will have memories of joy to sustain you.
we are a community of potential saints with a shared destiny and each of us is a thread in a tapestry of meaning.
“The only wisdom we can hope to acquire / Is the wisdom of humility.”
Living with a recognition of the spiritual dimension of the world not only ensures a happier life but also a more honest intellectual life than if we allow no room for wonder and refuse to acknowledge the mystery of existence.
the only significant measure of your life is the positive effect you have on others, either by conscious acts of will or by unconscious example.
