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#373764 - 01/02/12 11:18 PM Meaningful quote to ponder for new year
Alice Moderator Member Registered: 01/12/03 Posts: 10261 Loc: USA	Although the source is unknown, this quote was sent by our parish priest, as it is quite fitting for our spiritual life in this new year: “I am convinced that this can be the best year of your life if you will simply accept one principle: WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN WHAT YOU HAVE OR WHO YOU ARE. Can you accept that? The most important matter in your life is not what is happening TO you, but what is happening IN you.” Unknown
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#373771 - 01/03/12 12:04 AM Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year [Re: Alice]
Penthaetria Member Registered: 09/16/04 Posts: 713 Loc: DC area	Excellent, Alice. It reminds me of a favorite quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within us out into the world, miracles happen.
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#373807 - 01/04/12 03:28 AM Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year [Re: Alice]
Systratiotes Member Registered: 10/24/08 Posts: 74 Loc: California	I like the citation Alice posted. Somehow the following citation came to mind: "It is not the amount one does, nor the consciousness of one's own usefulness which makes one happy in serving, but the assurance that one would be called on and used in case of need." - James Butler Stoney - 1814-1897 μιχαηλ τον αιρετικον
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#373818 - 01/04/12 01:12 PM Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year [Re: Alice]
sielos ilgesys Member Registered: 05/07/09 Posts: 1219 Loc: Texas/USA	Alice, I shared this quote with an agnostic I know and all he said in response was, "How cryptic." Yours sure does beat the one I start each year with. It's attributed to Gertrude Stein: "There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. THAT'S the answer." But then, I often teeter on the brink of nihilism...
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#373819 - 01/04/12 05:33 PM Re: Meaningful quote to ponder for new year [Re: sielos ilgesys]
Penthaetria Member Registered: 09/16/04 Posts: 713 Loc: DC area	Originally Posted By: sielos ilgesys "There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. THAT'S the answer." More precisely: It's all a mystery, a Great Mystery.
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