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“Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius

You are doing something very sacred here during your life upon the earth. You are defining yourself in each golden moment of Now. -Neale Donald Walsch

[Self-Care is Stewardship] Anytime we can listen to true self and give it the care it requires, we do so not only for ourselves, but for the many others whose lives we touch. -Parker J. Palmer

We must withdraw the negative projections we make on people and situations — projections that serve mainly to mask our fears about ourselves — and acknowledge and embrace your own liabilities and limits. -Parker J. Palmer

“Who am I,” is a more important question to ask than “What should I do with my life?” -Parker J. Palmer

Verbalizing is not the only way our lives speak, of course. They speak through our actions and reactions, our intuitions and instincts, our feelings and bodily states of being, perhaps more profoundly than through our words. -Parker J. Palmer

Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentions. -Parker J. Palmer

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather. -Pema Chodron

The past is over: forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past. -Jack Kornfield

"Paying attention is an act of rebellion at a time when distraction is at its highest level. So let's start our attention revolution. We become artists of the everyday and in doing so we can experience a lightness of mind and a respite from our labors in the real world." -Keri Smith

“Battered and stirred by the strength of the flow, [she] guides the vision on into his work." “And yet, standing at [her] appointed place, the trunk of the tree, [she] does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to [her] from the depths. [She] neither serves nor rules — [she] transmits. [Her] position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not [her] own. [She] is merely a channel.” -Paul Klee

“For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us. We’ve been raised to question what we know, to discount and discredit the authority of our gut. I want to know why. I regret whenever I abandon myself. But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here. It’s not the lips of a prince that will save us, but our own lips speaking. I am growing beyond my own conditioning, breaking set with what was breaking me.” -Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds