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“I have been finding treasures in places I did not want to search. I have been hearing wisdom from tongues I did not want to listen. I have been finding beauty where I did not want to look. And I have learned so much from journeys I did not want to take. Forgive me, O Gracious One; for I have been closing my ears and eyes for too long. I have learned that miracles are only called miracles because they are often witnessed by only those who can can see through all of life’s illusions. I am ready to see what really exists on other side, what exists behind the blinds, and taste all the ugly fruit instead of all that looks right, plump and ripe.”

- Suzy Kassem,

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“You need mountains, long staircases don’t make good hikers.”

- Amit Kalantri,

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“She remembered who she wasand the game changed.”

- Lalah Delia

Tag: awakening, divine-mother, divine-strength, do-the-work, doing-the-work, emerging, encouragement, god-is-with-you, god-is-working-in-your-life, growth, inner-strength, inspirational, journey, journey-of-life, lalah-delia, life-path, life-philosophy, life-purpose, love, meditation, minimalism, motivational, philosophy, purposeful-living, rebirth, reemerging, sacred-feminine, self-actualization, self-confidence, self-improvement, self-love, self-mastery, self-realization, spiritual, spirituality, trust-the-journey, trust-the-process,

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“When God takes out the trash, don’t go digging back through it. Trust Him.”

- Amaka Imani Nkosazana,

Tag: admiration, affirmations, afterlife, attitude, awake, awakening, blessings, confirmation, corruption, courage, curiosity, dedication, destiny, divine-guidance, dreams, earth, evil-people, expression, faithfulness, fate, feelings, finding-yourself, forget, forgiveness, freedom, friends, gifts, god, godliness, guidance, happiness, hate, haters, hatred, heart, heaven, holy, holy-spirit, honesty, imagination, independent, inspiration, inspire, journey, joy, kindness, knowledge, liars, life, life-lessons, living, love, loving-you, loving-yourself, lying, lying-to-yourself, motivation, motivational-quotes, optimistic, passion, peace, peace-of-mind, peaceful, peacemaker, people, philosophy, positive-thinking, power, power-of-words, quotes, self-respect, soul-searching, spiritual, spirituality, success, thankfulness, trash, treasure, trust, trusting-god, trustworthy, truth, value, vision, wisdom, words-to-live-by, worth,

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“Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits.”

- Cindy Ross

Tag: hiking, homecoming, journey, life, philosophy,

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“Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.”

- Harshit Walia

Tag: beauty, indian-fiction, inner-beauty, journey, life, philosophical, philosophy, poetic, psychology, religion, search, spirituality, success, wisdom,

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“The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.”

- Norton Juster,

Tag: journey, philosophy, quest,

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“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

- Gloria Gaither

Tag: inspirational, journey, life, purpose,

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“The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all the lines drawn through all the stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood.”