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“The more often I’m simply around, the more likely there will be opportunities for a good conversation. The more regularly I’m present, the freer my children feel to talk to me about what’s really going on. You and I need to work toward "quantity" of time with our kids. Only out of "quantity" will we find the "quality" we long for.”

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Book:Dirt Grenades and Other Explosive Parenting Moments
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“...I was reminded of the legendary choreographer and dancer Agnes de Mille, who said: "To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth, and it is yours for the taking." Dance your way to presence. Seize the large, beautiful, powerful parts of yourself--the ones you love and believe. They are, indeed, yours for the taking.”

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Book:Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
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“We are never anywhere but where we are even when much of that "where" is moving in some direction or other towards somewhere else. We cannot --right now-- know more than we know, have prepared or studied or rehearsed more than we actually did, be more beautiful or wiser or wittier or wealthier or healthier or stronger or better rested than we actually are. So go out and sing. Express your love laid bare and open. Be the fully imperfect glorious creature that you are. Dance in the rain.”

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Author:Shellen Lubin
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“You must be more alive than life. You must see darkness dance and hear silence sing. You must be more awake than light for we aren’t born sleeping and we shouldn’t live sleeping. Only then will death’s slumber become sweet.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri
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“It is not the sun that gives light to the earth, nor imagination that opens heaven- "heaven and earth will pass away" (Matt. 24:35)-but the presence of God that makes earth and heaven new and incorruptible and unites them. "And the city has no need of sun" (Rev. 21:23). The reality of the Liturgy is not illumined by a light which can pass away, "for no visible thing is good." The unseen presence of the Lord lights and reveals everything.”

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Book:Hymn of Entry: Liturgy and Life in the Orthodox Church
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“Presence is the practice of fully inhabiting where you are, with openness and attention, rather than rushing past toward what comes next. Presence does not mean every moment is blissful. Sometimes the present holds discomfort, uncertainty, or boredom. To be present is not to deny these, but to allow them space without immediately trying to escape.”

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Author:Ajmal, from the book "Borders of the Inner World"
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“Beliefs define the way we see reality. They filter what we look at, how we interpret events, and what we believe is possible. Two people can witness the same situation and walk away with entirely different conclusions, because they’re each seeing through the lens of their own inner world.”

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Book:Consciousness Rising
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“The moment we shift the frequency we live from, life begins to rearrange itself around that new vibration. It does not always do so with fireworks or dramatic signs. More often, it meets us in quieter ways — situations that stretch us, opportunities that beckon us forward, old patterns rising to be released.”

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Book:Consciousness Rising
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“I sit now, as I have before, with the question of balance, balance between hanging on (planning, setting goals and expectations) and letting go (complete presence, in the moment, no attachment to any one way). Do they have to be in contradiction? Yes. Can they be contradictory co-existing realities? Yes, yes, definitely. But only only only when we balance them through fullness, allowing them to co-exist, letting the plans and goals in deeply, but not clutching them for dear life, and allowing the results of the process to be what they are, as they continue to affect the plans and goals, and us... And so begin again again again hold on again let go again again again all at the same time.”

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Author:Shellen Lubin
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“The lightbulb in my bathroom has blown [...] at night it's dark there in a really weird way, I can stand for ages looking at everything in there, the towels hanging from the hooks, the toothbrush in the glass, the toothpaste, the razor, the shower curtain, and it's like I'm not in the room, like I shouldn't be there, like I'm seeing things how they are when I'm not there, do you understand what I mean? And that I shouldn't be, that somehow I'm a hindrance, but that's almost why I stay there.”

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Book:Knots: Stories
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“Peace begins with you: your thoughts, actions, and beliefs, in this moment. When you shift your perspective, you transform your experience.”

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Book:Quiet the Itty Bitty Shitty Committee: Five Self-Love Tools to Silence Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Worth
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