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  • quote: love becomes revolutionary

    Byheartwideopen November 9, 2018December 9, 2018

    When we love even in the face of fear and rage, we can transform a relationship, a culture, and a country. Love becomes revolutionary. — Valarie Kaur

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  • quote: a place between

    Byheartwideopen March 12, 2018March 28, 2018

    My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, ‘a place beyond rightness and wrongness.’ — Marshall Rosenberg

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  • quote: becoming the journey

    Byheartwideopen October 1, 2017

    In the end, she became more than what she expected. She became the journey, and like all journeys, she did not end, she just simply changed directions and kept going. — R.M. Drake

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  • quote: grace

    Byheartwideopen September 6, 2017

    When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the…

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  • quote: courage

    Byheartwideopen August 17, 2017

    Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor – the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds….

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  • quote: silence and chanting

    Byheartwideopen July 9, 2017

    Without the silence that follows the chants, you get only half the story. It’s like the climax of a good story. The silence is there because it exists in the music. It just needs to be exposed and acknowledged. It’s so easy to overlook the silence inside the music… and it’s that which is healing…

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  • quote: ism

    Byheartwideopen June 20, 2017

    ‘i love myself.’ the quietest. simplest. most powerful. revolution. ever. — Nayyirah Waheed

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  • quote: vulnerability

    Byheartwideopen May 25, 2017July 15, 2017

    Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will…

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  • quote: planting seeds

    Byheartwideopen April 26, 2017

    Your mind is like a piece of land planted with many different kinds of seeds: seeds of joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love; seeds of craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness. These wholesome and unwholesome seeds are always there, sleeping in the soil of your mind. The quality of your life depends on the seeds…

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  • quote: trust

    Byheartwideopen April 6, 2017

    Trust and action are two sides of the same coin. Trust is not just an idea, it’s a way of life. Like peace is a way of life. So being an activist, a spiritual activist, is to manifest trust, to bring trust into your everyday life. — Satish Kumar

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