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I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

Barbara Brown Taylor

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR

Self Tradition World
Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.
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Everyday Reality Sky
Kindness is not a bad religion, no matter what name you use for God.
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Kindness Names Use
Beliefs have become unimportant to me. Faith as radical trust became even more important to me.
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Belief Important Radical
The boundaries became constrictive in what I was doing, and if my faith grew, it was because I pressed some of the boundaries in ways I hadn’t felt comfortable or responsible doing that before.
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Boundaries Responsible Way
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails.
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Knowing Practice Succeed
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
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Behave Believe Politics
I’m leaving out some of the hugely successful megachurches, of which I have very little experience.
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Leaving Littles Successful
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes…swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
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Believe Needs Want
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices…. Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
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Choices Healing Responsibility
Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.
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Christian Inspirational Religious
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something — a very big something — because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
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Bigs People Waiting
The beauty in the losing is a loss finally of self-consciousness. There’s a gorgeous moment that can happen in all kinds of places. It can happen with people, it can happen with nature, and it can happen with my eyes shut anywhere I am.
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Eye Loss Self
The value for me being in a mainline tradition is history and memory, which is not just Christian tradition but denominational tradition, and characters, you know, with real distinct flavors of ways to be Christian.
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Christian Memories Real
I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.
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might People Soul
It’s difficult for me to ignore how many conflicts locally and worldwide have religion tagged to them.
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Conflict Difficult Tagged

I became so attentive to the souls of other people that I was not as attentive as I might have been to my own.

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