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quotes[0]='I am on the track of a more essential thing: the compassionate uses of a mortal mind and body.  If I learn that, what can salvation matter?<BR><i>-Czeslaw Milosz and Catherine Madsen</i>'

quotes[1]='World peace must develop out of inner peace.<BR><i>-The Dalai Lama</i>'

quotes[2]='Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me-the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes invisible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life\'s foolscap.<BR><i>-Vladimir Nabokov, Speak Memory</i>'

quotes[3]='But The Thorn Birds is not mainly about an adulterous priest. It is about a harsh, insensitive, ambitious priest who is saved, if he is saved at all, by the humanization he experiences in his love for Meggie.  The love is sinful, all right, though not nearly as sinful as his crass and cruel ambition.  But it also breaks through Ralph de Bricassart\'s smooth arrogance and brings him into the human race.  The God who draws straight with crooked lines uses this illicit love to attract Ralph to Himself (Herself, if you wish).<BR>If Ralph makes it to happiness -- and I think he does -- Meggie will be the reason.  In the providence of a tricky, persistent, irresistibly loving God, Meggie, sinner or not, becomes for Ralph, grace, sacrament, and salvation.<BR>The Thorn Birds is not about an uncontrollably passionate priest who will stop at nothing to find power and pleasure.  It is about an implacably passionate God who will stop at nothing in the pursuit of creatures with whom He/She has fallen in love.<BR><i>-Fr. Andrew M. Greely</i>'

quotes[4]='The invisible is thoroughly visible all through the oak and is not elsewhere or prior to the oak but acts like an implicate order folded all through the visible, like the butter in a French croissant or the fragrant air in risen bread…..<BR><i>-James Hillman, The Soul\'s Code</i>'

quotes[5]='So it is we connect with one another, move in and out of one another\'s lives, teach and heal and affirm one another, across space and time-all of us wanderers, explorers, adventurers, stragglers and ramblers, sometimes tramps or vagabonds, even fugitives, but now and then pilgrims: as children, as parents, as old ones about to take that final step, to enter that territory whose character none of us here ever knows.  Yet how young we are when we start wondering about it all, the nature of the journey and of the final destination.<BR><i>-Robert Coles, The Spiritual Life of Children, p.335 </i>'

quotes[6]='You can have a tragic life, not by failing, but by living out someone else\'s life that was not your own.  And that\'s the ultimate death to the soul.  The soul would rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else\'s…. There\'s been an increase in the pressure around our destinies.<BR><i>-David Whyte</i>'

quotes[7]='The dark sorcerers in life are created within each of us when we live a life of unexpressed creativity, when we live someone else\'s truth and not our own…<BR><i>-Lynn Andrews, The Power Deck, \"Creativity\"</i>'

quotes[8]='What if you slept, and what if in your sleep you dreamed,<BR>and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there<BR>plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when<BR>you awoke you had the flower in your hand?  Ah, what then?<BR><i>-Coleridge</i>'

quotes[9]='Who are we that fled the<BR>thousand lives we did not lead<BR>in order to escape the very one<BR>life that we were destined for?<BR><i>-Nathaniel Tarn, \"Architextures A7:88\"</i>'

quotes[10]='Soul is nothing like ego.  Soul is closely connected to fate, and the turns of fate almost always go counter to the expectations and often to the desires of the ego…. Soul is the font of who we are, and yet it is far beyond our capacity to devise and to control.  We can cultivate, tend, enjoy, and participate in the things of the soul, but we cannot outwit it or manage it or shape it to the designs of a willful ego.<BR><i>-Thomas Moore, The Care of the Soul</i>'

quotes[11]='Nothing is inevitable in history.  History is a series of choices that you make.  Lewis & Clark had to make choices in uncharted territory-which branch of this river are we gonna take?  And if we take the wrong one, we fail, and we may even die.  That\'s what history is-it\'s a series of choices we make, and I think by understanding our own history, we can make better choices.<BR><i>-Dayton Duncan</i>'

quotes[12]='Grand slam, your moment\'s at hand<BR>The day holds a costly bargain<BR>Lost lamb<BR>Asking the lion\'s share….<BR><i>-Dan Fogelberg</i>'

quotes[13]='I was afraid to go into the dark (the darkroom) because it was no longer familiar.  I needed to regain the part of me I had lost, but had no idea where to look.  I doubted everything: my vision, my value, the worth of anything I had ever done.  It wasn\'t just that I had to begin again.  I had to get past the voices that said there was nothing there to begin with.<BR><i>-Jan Phillips, Marry Your Muse: Make a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity, p.87</i>'

quotes[14]='It hardly matters what we call our mission, whether it\'s ourselves or others we set out to help, or if it\'s fear and doubt that lead us to action.  What matters is that, whatever our fear, we make our way to the edge of the cliff and, looking beyond, dare to jump.  for that is the action that calls forth wings.  They do not sprout till we have left the ground.<BR><i>-Jan Phillips, Marry Your Muse: Make a Lasting Commitment to Your Creativity, p.87</i>'

quotes[15]='We have to go behind what we feel and think, behind what we hope for and aspire to and find what we are.  Then we will discover that we are an inevitable fact and must inevitably accomplish certain things, pass through certain experiences, and be ourselves forever.<BR><i>-Manly P. Hall</i>'

quotes[16]='Before we can become who we really are, we must become conscious of the fact that the person who we think we are, here and now, is at best an imposter and a stranger.<BR><i>-Thomas Merton</i>'

quotes[17]='The prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall.  The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication.  It is the same with us and God.  Every separation is a link.<BR><i>-Simone Weil</i>'

quotes[18]='The mind\'s fate is, after all, a person\'s fate.  We are drawn along by our private visions, but beyond them stretch almost infinitely for each of us the vast and compelling mysteries of chance and circumstance.<BR><i>-Georges Bernanos</i>'

quotes[19]='The universe puts us in places where we can learn.  They\'re never easy places, but wherever we are is the right place.  We are the universe, made manifest, trying to figure itself out…. If the universe puts a mystery in front of us as a gift, politeness requires that we try to understand it.<BR><i>-Character of Delenn in \"Babylon 5,\" written by J. Michael Straczynski</i>'

quotes[20]='The child must know that he is a miracle; that since the beginning of the world there hasn\'t been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.<BR><i>-Pablo Casals</i>'

quotes[21]='If you\'re looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is, there is no key to the Universe. The good news is, it has been left unlocked. <BR><i>-Swami Beyondananda</i>'

quotes[22]='I am convinced that the universe is under the control of a loving purpose.  And that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.  Behind the harsh appearance of the world there is a benign power.<BR><i>-Martin Luther King, Jr.</i>'

quotes[23]='I hope to say a word in time to my companions -- a password -- like conspirators.<br>Let us make for the earth a heart and a brain.<BR><i>-Nikos Kazantzakis, The Saviors of God</i>'

quotes[24]='When she questioned whether she should tell the king what she knew,<br>Queen Esther was asked, \"Who knows but you were born for such a time as this?\"<BR><i>-Source unknown</i>'

quotes[25]='Links of a chain.  Roads leading not only across space but through time, shining roads invisible to human eyes but as solid as the stone ribs of earth.  Roads connecting ages and people…all those whose kindred spirits were of one ancient family, drawing them together with longing for their own kind.  Their own connection with the earth.<BR>Throughout his life kindred spirits had haunted him with a sweet, wild language of their own, dearer to him than the tongue of the Gaels; turning his feet from their intended path with an irresistible summons, the communication of his true family, his heart\'s people.<BR>And now the dreams and images and splintered shards of memory suddenly came together for him on Ierne, and he knew they were more than ephemera.  They were signposts, weathered but still recognizable: hints of home.  A shade of light, a windblown scent, a certain combination of sounds that had always been enough to summon him, alert as a hunting hound, quivering and eager…<BR><i>-Ierne</i>'

quotes[26]='The metaphysics of one era is the science of the next.<BR><i>-Max Born, Nobel Prize, Physics</i>'

quotes[27]='Peculiar travel directions are dancing lessons from God.<BR><i>-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</i>'

quotes[28]='Each person is a sun and a moon, and a heaven filled with stars.<BR><i>-Paracelsus, 16th century philosopher-physician</i>'

quotes[29]='Learn your theories as well as you can, and put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul.<BR><i>-C.G. Jung</i>'

quotes[30]='There is a crack, a crack in everything, that\'s how the light gets in.<BR><i>-Leonard Cohen, in Anthem, 1992</i>'

quotes[31]='If the idea at first is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.<BR><i>-Albert Einstein</i>'

quotes[32]='Everybody\'s a whole lot more than the dumbest thing they ever did.<BR><i>-Fr. Gregory Boyle</i>'

quotes[33]='The need for something to believe in is on every face I meet….<BR><i>-Laura Smith, \"Whirlaround\"</i>'

quotes[34]='Drive your karma, and curb your dogma.<BR><i>-Swami Beyondananda</i>'

quotes[35]='Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.<BR><i>-Andre Gide</i>'

quotes[36]='If you have the opportunity to live two kinds of completely different lives, you should take it.<BR><i>-Giaconda Belli (for writers)</i>'

quotes[37]='Sometimes we transit each other\'s lives like benevolent planets. <BR><i>-Julia Cameron</i>'

quotes[38]='We are given an interpretation of perception when we are born.<BR><i>-Carlos Castaneda</i>'

quotes[39]='Coincidence, if traced far enough back, becomes inevitable.<BR><i>-Hineu</i>'

quotes[40]='Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.<BR><i>-Rumi</i>'

quotes[41]='Mystery, not logic, is what gives us hope.<BR><i>-Bryce Courtenay</i>'

quotes[42]='For the Zulu, there is no such thing as coincidence.<BR><i>-Bryce Courtenay</i>'

quotes[43]='The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.<BR><i>-Rainer Maria Rilke</i>'

quotes[44]='Genius is the art of knowing how far to go too far.<BR><i>-Jean Cocteau</i>'

quotes[45]='The end of the tale reveals its a priori structure: what it was from the beginning.<BR><i>-James Hillman, The Soul\'s Code</i>'

quotes[46]='Identity is the end of safety.<BR><i>-James Baldwin</i>'

quotes[47]='You have to get out of the way and let God into the room.<BR><i>-Quincy Jones</i>'

quotes[48]='Mock not the flood of stars - The thing\'s to be.<BR><i>-Ezra Pound</i>'

quotes[49]='One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.<BR><i>-Krishnamurti</i>'

quotes[50]='Your first job is to get your own story straight.<BR><i>-Natalie Goldberg</i>'

quotes[51]='Fate does not come to meet us; rather, we turn to meet our fate.<BR><i>-Liz Greene</i>'

quotes[52]='Man can endure any \"how\" when he has a \"why.\"<BR><i>-Freidrich Nietzsche</i>'

quotes[53]='Being born is an expression of the willingness to forget and then to remember.<BR><i>-Malidoma Somé</i>'

quotes[54]='Once I decided to go all the way, the road turned downhill toward home.<BR><i>-Sam Keen</i>'

quotes[55]='If I do violence to the universe, somehow I\'m stuck in a violent universe.<BR><i>-Ram Dass</i>'

quotes[56]='I had two great advantages: I was born wise, and I was born poor.<BR><i>-Sophia Loren</i>'

quotes[57]='Stranger, pass by that which you do not love.<BR><i>-Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgrimage</i>'

quotes[58]='Be careful how you live.  You may be the only Bible some person ever reads.<BR><i>-William J. Toms</i>'

quotes[59]='The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don\'t go back to sleep!….<BR><i>-Rumi</i>'

quotes[60]='The approaches to wisdom are paved with prickly paradox; hard going for bare rational feet.<BR><i>-Alan McGlashan, The Savage and Beautiful Country</i>'

quotes[61]='Removing grace notes and complexity shrinks more than the text….<BR><i>-Hadley Fitzgerald</i>'

quotes[62]='It\'s a reactive thing, like a Geiger counter; you click whenever you come close to whatever you were built to do.<BR><i>-Stephen King</i>'

quotes[63]='We have to find a life in the world of grace and spirit, and this is certainly a new dimension for most of us.<BR><i>-Bill W.</i>'

quotes[64]='Light ran through him like blood.<BR><i>-Morgan Llywelyn, Bard: The Odyssey of the Irish, p.346</i>'

quotes[65]='It\'s not what you\'re sent to find that\'s as important as what you find in its place.<BR><i>-Dayton Duncan [re Lewis & Clark expedition]</i>'

quotes[66]='When you have a sense of the ironic, you can never mistake your own agenda for the real destiny that you have.<BR><i>-John O\'Donohue,  Inner Landscape</i>'

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