Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.
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Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.
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Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
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One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
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You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.
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One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
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