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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

Sunday Inspiration: Miracles

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.
—Hans Christian Andersen

Sunday Inspiration: Ego

if you measure
the length
of your ego,
it will equal
the distance
between you
and your freedom
—Yung Pueblo

Sunday Inspiration: What We Do Not Do

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
—Molière

Sunday Inspiration: True Ignorance

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
—Karl Popper

Sunday Inspiration: I Have One Life

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
—Jimmy Carter

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

If we wish to acquire humility, we must ask God to send us someone who will offend us.
—Saint Dorotheos of Gaza