You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

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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

Courage

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