Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

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"In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."

- Frederick Buechner

Awareness

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too."

- Frederick Buechner

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"The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it."

- Frederick Buechner

Transformation

""Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.""

- Frederick Buechner

Courage

"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid."

- Frederick Buechner

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"Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart."

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"Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you’ve got a kingdom."

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