The Woman's Book of Prayer. Becca Anderson

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      We Are All Born Good, We Are All Born Different

      Ren zhi chu

      Xing ben shan

      Xing xiang jin

      Xi xiang yuan

      Gou bu jiao

      Xing nai qian

      Jiao zhi dao

      Gui yi zhuan

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      When a child is born,

      At the root, is good.

      Everyone’s nature is the same

      But everyone experiences different things.

      If there is no Way,

      We will move away from our nature.

      The teaching of the Way

      Is valuable because it is particular to each [woman and] man.

      —Thirteenth Century Southern Chinese Poem

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      Let Us Exult in the Sheer Delight of Being Alive

      What, you ask, is the beginning of it all?

      And it is this…

      Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being

      and plunged into numberless trillions of forms

      so that it might find itself innumerably.

      —Sri

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      Still Awareness

      I believe it is the most important.

      It is our most unique gift. It is perhaps the greatest gift we can give.

      In our language this quality is called dadirri.

      It is inner, deep listening and quiet, still awareness…

      When I experience dadirri,

      I am made whole again.

      I can sit on the river bank or walk through the trees;

      even if someone close to me has passed away,

      I can find my peace in this silent awareness.

      There is no need of words…

      It is just being aware…

      —Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Bauman,

      Aboriginal Artist & Teacher

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      Healing Touch

      Touch the pain of the world

      and release hope into the darkness.

      —Sister Simone Campbell, Sisters of Social Service

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      Have Faith in Yourself, Too

      If the whole universe can be found in our own body and mind, this is where we need to make our inquiries. We all have the answers within ourselves, we just have not got in touch with them yet. The potential of finding the truth within requires faith in ourselves.

      —Ayya Khema

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      Let Us Love One Another

      Together we travel the ongoing concentric spiral

      knowing that we are loving to know how loving we are.

      We are loving to know how loving we are.

      Knowing that we are loving.

      Loving to know how.

      How loving we are to know.

      We are loving to know how loving we are.

      —Amy Leader

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      Everything You Need to Know Is Inside You

      The answer lies within ourselves. If we can’t find peace and happiness there, it’s not going to come from the outside.

      —Tenzin Palmo

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      Love Holds the World Together

      The Goddess falls in love with Herself, drawing forth her own emanation, which takes on a life of its own. Love of self for self is the creative force of the universe. Desire is the primal energy, and that energy is erotic: the attraction of lover to beloved, of planet to star, the lust of electron for proton. Love is the glue that holds the world together.

      —Starhawk

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      Turning toward God Every Day

      To surrender oneself is something more

      than to devote oneself, more than to give oneself,

      it is even more than to abandon oneself to God.

      To surrender oneself is to die to everything and to self,

      to keep it continually turned towards God.

      Self-surrender is no longer to seek self-satisfaction in anything

      but solely God’s good pleasure.

      It should be added that self-surrender is to follow

      that complete spirit of detachment

      which holds to nothing;

      neither to persons nor to things—

      The whole thing consists in making a generous act

      at the very beginning,

      by saying with all the sincerity of your heart:

      “My God, I wish to be entirely thine; deign to accept my offering”

      —then all is said…

      You must always remember that you have surrendered yourself.

      —St. Thérèse Couderc

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      Life Comes at You Fast

      This life you must know

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