"How we remember, what we remember, and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality."
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"This unceasing interplay between experience and narrative is a uniquely human attribute. We are the storytellers, the ones who put life into words."
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"Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book."
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"Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society."
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"My journal is my life's companion."
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"Spirituality is the sacred center out of which all life comes, including Mondays and Tuesdays and rainy Saturday afternoons in all their mundane and glorious detail....The spiritual journey is the soul's life commingling with ordinary life."
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"Perhaps we wouldn't eat so much, or smoke, or drink so much if we were paying attention to ourselves. Perhaps we wouldn't talk so much if we were paying attention to each other. All these oral activities are trying to meet a need, and perhaps the greatest need is to be seen and heard."
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"The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift."
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"Spiritual life is contractual."
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"Spiritual energy brings compassion into the world."
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"We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story."
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"Intuition always has our best interest at heart."
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"Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories."
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"Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars."
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"My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind."
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"in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience."
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"Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."
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"Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things."
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"Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out."
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"We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story."
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