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The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.


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You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.

You don't need to do everything. Do what calls your heart; effective action comes from love. It is unstoppable, and it is enough.



The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.



The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.

The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.



Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.

Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.



Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.

Walk boldly through your life with an open, broken heart.



The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.

The web of life both cradles us and calls us to weave it further.



We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.

We are making choices that will affect whether beings thousands of generations from now will be able to be born sound of mind and body.



The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.



Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.

Grace happens when we act with others on behalf of our world.



There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.

There are the holding actions, the changing actions, and the vision of the future - what we want to see happen for the Earth. All are essential.





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If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.

If you feel guilty about not "playing nice," then you could easily alleviate your guilt by playing nice.



War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.



The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.

The aim of every typographic work - the delivery of a message in the shortest, most efficient manner.



True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.



I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.



no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.

no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U.S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.



The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely amoral, but by the fervent devotees of ethical principles.



If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.

If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.



Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.

Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.



One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.

One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours.




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