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Sunday: Today Is a Gift
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
—Babatunde Olatunji
Sunday Inspiration: Always
When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it—always.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday Inspiration: Different Gifts
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
—Fred Rogers
Sunday Inspiration: Allowing Oppression
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
—Desiderius Erasmus
Sunday Inspiration: Open Hearts
To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.
—Leonard Cohen
Sunday Inspiration: Care of the Soul
I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Facing Our Soul
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
—Carl Jung
Sunday Inspiration: What Makes You Come Alive
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
―Howard Thurman
Sunday Inspiration: Living in the Present
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
—Lao Tzu
Sunday Inspiration: Truth Bursts Through
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
—Émile Zola
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