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 ...the Lord’s work is not just to solve problems; it is to build people. So as you walk with Him in priesthood service, you may find that sometimes what seems like the most efficient solution is not the Lord’s preferred solution because it does not allow people to grow.
- Henry B. Eyring
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 “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: you knew those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought ofCthrowing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace”

- C.S. Lewis

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 As the Church grows, it is very important that we build solidly and well, and that our prospective stakes have the basic ingredients that are necessary for success and that existing stakes work tirelessly for full stakehood in the sense of spiritual achievement. These stakes are to be the gathering spots for the Zion of today, and they need to be spiritual sanctuaries and to be self-sufficient in as many ways as is possible.

- Ezra Taft Benson

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 The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

- George Bernard Shaw

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 “On my way to visit the James’s the other evening, I saw a wheat field that appeared to be greener and taller than the others. Thinking about it for a while, I concluded that occasionally some loving farmer drives over the field with his tractor and pumps manure all over it. I thought, “My, it’s just like life. Here we are minding our own business, growing our little hearts out. We’re really quite green, somewhat productive, and very sincere, when out of the blue, life deals us a dirty one and we’re up to our eyebrows in manure. We, or course, conclude that life as we have known it has just ended and will never be the same again. But one day when the smell and the shock are gone, we find ourselves greener and taller than we have been.”

- Harold W. Wood

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 “No matter how wicked and ferocious and depraved the Lamanites might be (and they were that!), no matter how much they outnumbered the Nephites, darkly closing in on all sides, no matter how insidiously they spied and intrigued and infiltrated and hatched their diabolical plots and breathed their bloody threats and pushed their formidable preparations for all-out war, they were not the Nephite problem. They were merely kept there to remind the Nephites of their real problem, which was to walk uprightly before the Lord”

- Hugh Nibley

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 Don't forget the important rule: the secret of happiness is not "being great" - the secret is "growth". If you only "try" you'll get to your level that is natural for you. But growth will stop and you won't be happy.

- James Altucher

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 Looking back on the Built To Last study, it appears that the enduring great companies did in fact go through a process of buildup to breakthrough, following the good-to-great framework during their formative years.

- Jim Collins

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 Take calculated risks. You grow by stepping way outside your comfort zone.

- John Lambeth

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 What we achieve professionally, the quality of our relationships and ultimately our capacity for happiness spring from a positive, growth mindset.

- Ravi Venkatesan

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 If we brush other people aside in order to see a task done more quickly and effectively, the task may get done all right, but without the growth and development in followers that is so important.

- Spencer W. Kimball

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 “Take away the serpents from us,” they pled. But apparently the Lord did not, even when Moses prayed about it, because the serpents were not the problem. The real problem was lack of faith and an attitude that caused the Israelites to complain constantly, and to blame God and Moses for every difficulty. If the Israelites had gone to Moses and said, “Pray unto the Lord, that He might take away our rotten attitudes from us,” this story might have a different ending. But to them, bad attitude was not the problem. Snakes were the problem. The Lord’s response was to have Moses make a brass snake and place it on a pole where people could find it and look at it. With the sculpted serpent came the promise: “Everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.” (Numbers 21:8.) The number of fiery serpents did not diminish at all. They remained in all their poisonous plenty to remind Israel about the genuine issue. As we would expect, the Lord’s response dealt with the real problem, and attempted to teach trust, faith, and gratitude, in much the same way as His response to the question of the brother of Jared about light in the barges.

- Ted Gibbons

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 Immediately after Jesus fed the five thousand with two tiny fish and five loaves of barley bread and filled twelve baskets with the leftovers, some of the Jews determined to “take him by force, to make him a king” (John 6:15). He would have made a great king! He could feed the starving, heal the sick, raise the dead, pay taxes with money from the mouth of a fish; certainly He could defeat and expel the Romans. He could with a wave of his hand resolve every social problem faced by the Jewish nation. But the problems the Jews needed to solve were neither social nor political. They were spiritual. And until the Jews resolved their spiritual dilemma, they could not expect the Lord to help them solve other problems.

- Ted Gibbons

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 A formula for growth that takes no account of social and political complexities is no formula at all.

- The Economist

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 I can tell you, it’s the people who give up the story of what happened to them and find a higher meaning who are the ones who lead, grow, give, and experience life’s deepest joy and fulfillment.

- Tony Robbins

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 The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

- Alan Watts

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 You came in to this world with enough light to find your way out of the dark, enough kindness to save a soul, enough love to shift a planet. Don't worry, you are equipped with all you could ever need. Look within, you are drenched in magic.

- Alexis Karpouzos

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 Journey as far outside of your comfort zone as you can possibly go. Evolve so magnificently That you make even butterflies jealous. take risk after risk after risk.

- Amanda Lovelace

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 You can search the whole tenfold universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here—yourself.

- Buddha

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 There is no controlling life. Try corralling a lightning bolt, containing a tornado. Dam a stream and it will create a new channel. Resist, and the tide will sweep you off your feet. Allow, and grace will carry you to higher ground. The only safety lies in letting it all in – the wild and the weak; fear, fantasies, failures and success. When loss rips off the doors of the heart, or sadness veils your vision with despair, practice becomes simply bearing the truth. In the choice to let go of your known way of being, the whole world is revealed to your new eyes.

- Danna Faul

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 Every day we have the opportunity to create, and re-create our lives. This is the power we yield. No dark fate determines our future.

- Desmond Tutu

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 Trust Yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

- Golda Meir

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 Conflict is growth trying to happen.

- Harville Hendrix

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 No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

- Jack Kornfield

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 To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

- Jack Kornfield

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 If we cannot be happy in spite of our difficulties, what good is our spiritual practice? Gratitude is a gracious acknowledgment of all that sustains us, a bow to our blessings, great and small. Buddhist monks begin each day with chants of gratitude for the gifts of food and shelter, of friendship and for the teachings that benefit all. In the same way, Native American elders begin each ceremony with grateful prayers to Mother Earth and Father Sky, to the four directions, to the animal, plant, and mineral brothers and sisters who share our earth and support our life. Gratitude is the confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. In Tibet, the monks and nuns even offer prayers of gratitude for the suffering they have been given: “Grant that I might have enough suffering to awaken in me the deepest possible compassion and wisdom.” Gratitude does not envy or compare. Gratitude is not dependent on what you have. It depends on your heart. You can even find gratitude for your measure of sorrows, the hand you’ve been dealt. There is mystery surrounding even your difficulties and suffering. Sometimes it’s through the hardest things that your heart learns its most important lessons. As gratitude grows it gives rise to joy. We experience the courage to rejoice in our own blessings and in the good fortune of others. In joy, we are not afraid of pleasure. We do not mistakenly believe it is disloyal to the suffering of the world to honor the measure of happiness we have been given. Joy gladdens the heart. We can be joyful for people we love, for moments of goodness, for sunlight and trees, and for the very breath within our lungs. Like an innocent child, we can rejoice in life itself, in being alive. Encounter every new moment with wonder and gratitude, and you’ll experience that it’s never too late to open your mind and your heart. As Bob Dylan sings, “He not busy being born is busy dying.” Give birth to a grateful spirit and you will discover how to live fully and freely.

- Jack Kornfield

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 We must understand the power of the stories we tell ourselves, and differentiate them from the direct experience of life. In this way, we can use thoughts without becoming trapped by them.

- Jack Kornfield

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 When our identity expands to include everything, we find a peace with the dance of the world. The ocean of life rises and falls within us – birth and death, joy and pain, it is all ours, and our heart is full and empty, large enough to embrace it all.

- Jack Kornfield

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 You tumbled into my heart I fell hopelessly in love with you from the first time I spied your tiny eyes Awe and terror that something so precious that smelled so pure could be given into my care I long to know that I have done good enough I wanted so much to do it perfectly to mother you as I was never mothered give you the life I had always dreamed But real life and my humanness got in the way If I find fault, it is not criticism of you but my own guilt at my own failings That I could save you from the fire of your own life that my struggle could take away yours and my suffering could protect you from pain All I can do is admire you admire you into your life Rejoice in you, everything Watch breath-taken as you create your world Forgive me for my mistakes Honour me for doing the best that I could Share with me all the worlds you find and come back to me in the spaces between

- Jane O'Shea

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 May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquilities. May all that is unloved in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.

- John O'Donohue

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 Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.

- John Welwood

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 Healing is a coming to terms with things as they are, rather than struggling to force them to be as they once were, or as we would like them to be, to feel secure or to have what we sometimes think of as our own way.

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

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 Think Like a Tree Soak up the sun Affirm life’s magic Be graceful in the wind Stand tall after a storm Feel refreshed after it rains Grow strong without notice Be prepared for each season Provide shelter to strangers Hang tough through a cold spell Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky Be still long enough to hear your own leaves rustling.

- Karen I. Shragg

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 Our life has not been an ascent up one side of a mountain and down the other. We did not reach a peak, only to decline and die. We have been as drops of water, born in the ocean and sprinkled on the earth in a gentle rain. We became a spring, and then a stream, and finally a river flowing deeper and stronger, nourishing all it touches as it nears its home once again. Don't accept the modern myths of aging. You are not declining. You are not fading away into uselessness. You are a sage, a river at its deepest and most nourishing. Sit by a river bank some time and watch attentively as the river tells you of your life.

- Lao Tzu

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 The moon is dark tonight, a new moon for a new year. It is hollow and hungers to be full. It is the black zero of beginning. Now you must void yourself of injuries, insults, incursions. Go with empty hands to those you have hurt and make amends. It is not too late. It is early and about to grow. Now is the time to do what you know you must and have feared to begin. Your face is dark too as you turn inward to face yourself, the hidden twin of all you must grow to be. Forgive the dead year. Forgive yourself. What will be wants to push through your fingers. The light you seek hides in your belly. The light you crave longs to stream from your eyes. You are the moon that will wax in new goodness.

- Marge Piercy

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 The New Year is a great door that stands across the evening and Yom Kippur is the second door. Between them are song and silence, stone and clay pot to be filled from within myself

- Marge Piercy

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 As often happens on the spiritual journey, we have arrived at the heart of a paradox: each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up. All we need to do is stop pounding on the door that has just closed, turn around - which puts the door behind us - and welcome the largeness of life that now lies open to our souls. The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality.

- Parker Palmer

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 Finding Our Way Back Home With these words I send some light With healing power to your heart I hope it helps to ease some pain Of what is tearing you apart Life sometimes can seem cruel And we are left to wonder why But we are never alone my friend We are all learning, You and I We have in life many lessons For our Spirits need to grow We learn from our pain It's what our Souls need to know So if sometimes you feel helpless And your Heart feels all alone Just remember we are all aboard this journey One day we'll find our way back home.

- Patrick Driscoll

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 We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.

- Pema Chodron

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 Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.

- Pema Chodron

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 Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

- Pema Chodron

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 To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

- Pema Chodron

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 This being human is a guest house.

- Rumi

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 Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

- Rumi

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 We can travel a long way in life and do many things, but our deepest happiness is not born from accumulating new experiences. It is born from letting go of what is unnecessary, and knowing ourselves to be always at home.

- Sharon Salzberg

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 There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.

- Tara Brach

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 When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

- Tara Brach

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 We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.

- Tara Brach

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 Awakening from mistaken belief that it’s something outside ourselves. It’s right here. More we trust, the more we can manifest it. But we must shed the skin of the trance we live in. Niche says, “If a snake cannot shed its skin, it perishes.” This means letting go of old identity, thoughts, beliefs, story. It is a risk- no way to shed skin without opening up vulnerability How am I holding on to this skin? Where am I closed, defended?

- Tara Brach

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 "A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible."

- The Overstory

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 It Is Not Too Late It is early and about to grow. Now is the time to do what you know you must and have feared to begin. For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

- T.S. Elliot

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 I can only give to you what I have already given to myself. I can only understand the world as much as I understand myself.

- Yung Pueblo

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 I held my fear by the hand, honored its existence, and thanked it for teaching me that happiness exists beyond the boundaries it creates.

- Yung Pueblo

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 They asked her, ""What does loving yourself mean?"" She answered, ""It means to uncover and release whatever keeps you from true happiness. To love, honor, and accept every single part of you, especially those that are kept in the dark. It means to continually observe yourself with the utmost honesty and without judgment. Loving yourself means striving to reach new heights of self-understanding so as to cultivate the wisdom that inner peace requires.”

- Yung Pueblo

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 Pick the path that lights you up the one you know deep down is the right choice stop listening to doubt start connecting with courage do not let the idea of normal get in the way it may not be the easy path but you know great things take effort lean into your determination lean into your mission lean into the real you Your intuition will lead you outside your comfort zone so that you can grow

- Yung Pueblo

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 We are conditioned to believe love is a feeling, usually the feeling that we ""get"" from the other person. Relationships are actually spaces to evolve, to grow, to learn to meet the parts of ourselves that we abandoned years ago. So many people look for relationships as an escape from themselves. To numb the pain, to be rescued from life as they know it. This unrealistic expectation will always lead to disappointment, because this was never the role of a partner. True commitment to another person involves a commitment to yourself. To unlearn toxic patterns, to learn how to communicate, to learn how to ask for your needs to be met. This won't always feel good. We won't always be “happy"" with our partners. Relationships take work. Especially if you haven’t witnessed a healthy, open, emotionally connected relationship in childhood. A partner is a mirror: showing you what needs healing.

- Yung Pueblo

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 Self love begins with acceptance, a complete acceptance of the history that our mind and body carry, but it does not stop there. Self love is an energy we use for our own personal evolution, it is a meeting and balance of two critically important ideas, one where we love who we currently are and another where we begin our transformation into the ideal version of ourselves. Though these ideas may seem contradictory they are both required for our ultimate success. Without acceptance, our transformation into our happier and freer selves would be highly difficult. Why? Because It is much harder to change and let go of what we hate. Self love is personal evolution in action

- Yung Pueblo

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 Self-love is the nourishment that gives us the clarity and strength to love others well.

- Yung Pueblo

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 When she started letting go, her vision became clearer. The present felt more manageable and the future began to look open and full of bright possibilities. As she shed the tense energy of the past, her power and creativity returned. With a revitalized excitement, she focused on building a new life in which joy and freedom were abundant.

- Yung Pueblo

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 I trust and feel at home around the ones who: - are not afraid to be vulnerable with themselves - live confidently in their power and gentleness - try their best to live without harming others - are serious about their healing and growth - have the humility to say 'I don't know

- Yung Pueblo

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