Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.

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"I embrace emerging experience. I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly."

- William Stafford

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"Kids: they dance before they learn that there is anything that isn't music."

- William Stafford

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"Children dance before they know there is anything that isn’t music."

- William Stafford

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"Children dance before they know there is anything that isn't music."

- William Stafford

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"Love has the power to transform even the most hideous of creatures."

- Beauty and the Beast

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"Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."

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"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."

- Queen Elizabeth II

Transformation

"Today is not just Tuesday, it is Transformation Tuesday. That means that success does not just come to you, you have to go out and get it. So what are you waiting for?"

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