“This is for all of those still in the military who are languishing – not able to come out to themselves … so I hope that this really stiffens their spines”
West Point Grad., Lt. Dan Choi (1981 – ) Response to the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell – 12/18/10
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“The pattern of the Great Spirit is over us all, but if we follow our own spirits from within, our pattern becomes clearer.”
– High Eagle (Native American adage of unknown ancestry)
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GOING ALL THE WAY- “With all the earnestness at our command, we beg of you to be fearless and thorough from the very start.” “Half measures availed us nothing.” (The Big Book, pp., 58-59)
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“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” – Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) Chinese philosopher (on courage and persistence)
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“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main;” – John Donne (1572 – 1631) English poet (on self-obsession)
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A “TRUE SPIRIT OF HUMILITY & LOVE” MENDS THE PANGS OF SHAME – “… we ask ourselves if we are doing this because we are truly sorry and have a genuine desire to make reparations … . If we answer ‘yes’ to this question, we can be assured that we are approaching our amends in the true spirit of humility and love.” (It Works, How & Why, p. 62)
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“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.” – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S., satirist/novelist
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“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” – Anais Nin (1903 – 1977) U.S. novelist (on self-acceptance)
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“The pain-body, which is the dark shadow cast by the ego, is actually afraid of the light of your consciousness. It is afraid of being found out. “
– Eckhart Tolle (1948 – ) German spiritual author
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“The storms of the past are receding. The skies are brightening. And the horizon is beckoning once more.” – U.S. Pres. Barack Obama (1961 – ) Energy speech 12/8/09
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