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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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The path of joy was connection and the path of sorrow was separation.
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Break Up Connection Joy Path Relationship Separate
A very important but difficult piece of renewing relationships is accepting responsibility for our part in any conflict.
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Acceptance Difficult Relationship
To protect our children, we must talk to them about rape.
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Children Protect Sex Violence
Life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives
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Deep Experience Human Life Live Philosophy Whole
It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul.
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Compassion Deep Discover Empathy God Philosophy Soul Vulnerable Weak
Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.
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Children God Sorry Suffer
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.
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Care Cherish Good Great Love Philosophy
We must be ready to learn from one another, not claiming that we alone possess all truth and that somehow we have a corner on God.
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Alone God Learning Philosophy Spiritual Truth
Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.
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Language Philosophy Power Reality
There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.
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Deep Difficult Wake Up
We learn from history that we don’t learn from history.
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History Learning Sarcastic
I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil.
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Act Believe Commitment Deep Evil Philosophy
In the end generosity is the best way of becoming more, more, and more joyful.
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End Generous Joy
We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know.
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Beautiful Friendship Good Love Togetherness World
Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
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Good Philosophy Togetherness World Yourself
Forgiveness is simply about understanding that every one of us is both inherently good and inherently flawed.
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Forgiveness Good Philosophy Understand
Don’t raise your voice, improve your argument.
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Argument Improvement One Liner Raise Voice Yourself
In the end what matters is not how good we are but how good God is. Not how much we love Him but how much He loves us. And God loves us whoever we are, whatever we’ve done or failed to do, whatever we believe or can’t.
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Believe End Fail God Good Himself Love Philosophy Spiritual
Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
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Beautiful Human Truth World
Be nice to whites, they need you to rediscover their humanity.
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Deep Discover Humanity Nice Race
We are fragile creatures, and it is from this weakness, not despite it, that we discover the possibility of true joy.
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Discover Joy Philosophy Possible True Weakness
If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people.
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Flower Joy People Philosophy Yourself
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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God Heaven People Religious Sin Spiritual Standard Surprise
We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.
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Love Philosophy Plant
When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.
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Enemy Hate Humanity Oppression Recognize Risk
When we see others as separate, they become a threat. When we see others as part of us, as connected, as interdependent, then there is no challenge we cannot face—together.
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Challenge Connection Philosophy Separate Togetherness Unity
A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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Alone Human Person Relationship

Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.

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