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When I rise uplet me rise up joyfullike a bird.When I falllet me fall without regretlike a leaf.

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Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and exc...more

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Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

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I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it a...more

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In time, against conscience and even will, my grief for him began to include grief for myself. Sometimes I would get the feeling that I was going to w...more

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I whisper over to myself the way of loss, the names of the dead. One by one, we lose our loved ones, our friends, our powers of work and pleasure, our...more

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The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars... I am findi...more

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A crowd whose discontent has risen no higher than the level of slogans is only a crowd. But a crowd that understands the reasons for its discontent an...more

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures...more

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It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a neg...more

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The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profoun...more

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To live, we must daily break the body and shed the blood of Creation. When we do this knowingly, lovingly, skillfully, reverently, it is a sacrament. ...more

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Creation is thus God's presence in creatures. The Greek Orthodox theologian Philip Sherrard has written that "Creation is nothing less than the manife...more