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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa : Macedonian Catholic nun, founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1998)
 
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Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh (1910 - 1987)
 
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

JIm Valvano
 
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"Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it."

Jose Arguelles
Source: The Transformative Vision, p. 26
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The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha : Indian mystic, founder of Buddhism
Buddha (563 - 483 BC)
Source: The Dhammapada Gautama Buddha / Translated by John Richards v.354
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There is
A madman inside of you
Who is always running for office -
Why vote him in,
For he never keeps the accounts straight.
He get all kinds of crooked deals
Happening all over town
That will just give you a big headache
And glue to your kisser
A gigantic
Confused
Frown.

Hafiz
Source: The Gift, Page: 108
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God has written a thousand promises all over your heart
That say, Life, life, life is far too sacred to ever end.

Hafiz
Source: The Gift, Page: 81
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Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,

Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife

Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you.

Hafiz
Source: The Gift, Page: 76
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Your "path" is the link between you and Great Spirit.  It is necessary to have a path in order for Great Spirit to gift you with a "vision".

Wolf Moondance
Source: Rainbow Medicine
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Help People Know They're Loved (Part 2) Spend the rest of your life giving people back to themselves, that they might love themselves. And show them by how you are with them that you know there is nothing they are lacking, nothing they are missing, nothing they need, nothing they are not.
Tomorrow's God
Neale Donald Walsch
Page 384

Neale Donald Walsch
Source: Tomorrow's God, page 384
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Barbara De Angelis
Source: My diary
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Wrapped in grief is the gift of joy.

Amazume : Pure Light Combustion
Nell Tomassen Reboh
Source: Amazume
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Love is the highest form of intelligence, and we share this unsurpassed gift with many other species.

Earon : Primate
Earon Davis
Source: Earon S. Davis
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"The greatest gift of wisdom you can give to others is the gift of your wise realization that within them is the Source of all they need to understand, to grow, to find right and happy direction." by Martha Smock

Martha Smock
Source: The Power of Your Words: Prayer & Journaling--Unity
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With the Gift of Awareness, comes the realization of the Infinite Knowledge awaiting our grasp.

Rhonda Lipstein
 
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I believe that every person is born with talent.

Maya Angelou : African-American philsopher, writer, actress, singer & poet laureate
Maya Angelou (1928 - )
 
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Our smile will bring happiness to us and to those around us. Even if we spend a lot of money on gifts for everyone in our family, nothing we buy could give them as much happiness as the gift of our awareness, our smile. And this precious gift costs nothing. At the end of a retreat in California, a friend wrote this poem:

I have lost my smile,
but don't worry.
The dandelion has it.

If you have lost your smile and yet are still capable of seeing that a dandelion is keeping it for you, the situation is not too bad. You still have enough mindfulness to see that the smile is there.

You only need to breathe consciously one or two times and you will recover your smile. The dandelion is one member of your community of friends. It is there, quite faithful, keeping your smile for you.

Thich Nhat Hanh : Gaia Explorer
Thich Nhat Hanh
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Connecting the individual consciousness together within yourself, is the gift of the giver. It is with a touch of love that your hands will recieve all that is hidden behind love. The touch is mine.

Rasa
Source: Testament of Will, Green 16
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A universe comes to contribute to our happiness when reverie comes to accentuate our repose. You must tell the man who wants to dream well to begin by being happy. Then reverie plays out its veritable destiny; it becomes poetic reverie and by it, in it, everything becomes beautiful. If the dreamer had "the gift" he would turn his reverie into a work. And this work would be grandiose since the dreamed world is automatically grandiose.

Gaston Bachelard (1884 - 1962)
Source: The Poetics of Reverie, Page: 12..13
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The only gift is giving to the poor; all else is exchange.

Thiruvalluvar
 
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Christmas gift suggestions:
To your enemy, forgiveness.
To an opponent, tolerance.
To a friend, your heart.
To a customer, service.
To all, charity.
To every child, a good example.
To yourself, respect.

Oren Arnold
 
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Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.

unknown : Gaia Child
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I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.

Fred Rogers
 
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Yes, Mother.  I can see you are flawed.  You have not hidden it.  That is your greatest gift to me.

Alice Walker (1944 - )
 
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The principle of Creative Limitations calls for freedom within a circle of obstacles and restricted boundaries. Talent is like a muscle: without something to push against, it atrophies. So we deliberately put obstacles in our path - barriers that will inspire us. We disciple ourselves as to what to do, while we're boundless as to how to do it.

Robert McKee
 
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Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in; that is, theatre that moves an audience. You have the opportunity to literally impact the lives of people if they work on material that has integrity. But today, most actors simply want to be famous. Well, being an actor was never supposed to be about fame and money. Being an actor is a religious calling because you've been given the ability, the gift to inspire humanity. Think about that on the way to your soap opera audition.

Sanford Meisner
 
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The task is to recognize that you are uniquely special, have something to give, some talent no one else shares in quite the same way. This gift needs to blossom so we can appreciate and enjoy the benefits of it and acknowledge you for it.   You owe this to yourself and to all of us to honor your gifts, for only when you share your unique joy with the world does the entire world benefit. Every advance mankind has known has come because of someone's effort. Don't let shyness rob you and the world of the power and the passion that lies within you. No one can be all that you will be except you yourself. Follow your passion.

Joel Garfinkle
 
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Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Mother Teresa : Macedonian Catholic nun, founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950
Mother Teresa (1910 - 1998)
 
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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Richard David Bach : American author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach (1936 - )
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We all laughed when Oota told how the government sometimes provided housing for the Aborigines.  The people slept in the yard and used the houses for storage.  That brought up their definition of a gift.  According to the tribe, a gift is only a gift when you give someone what the person wants.  It is not a gift if you give what you want them to have.  A gift has no attachment.  It is given unconditionally.  The persons receiving it have the right to do anything with the gift:  use it, destroy it, give it away, whatever.  It is theirs without condition, and the giver expects nothing in return.  If it doesn't fit that criteria, it is not a gift.  It should be classified as something else.  I had to agree that government gifts and, unfortunately, most of what my society would consider a gift would be classified differently by these people.

Marlo Morgan
Source: Mutant Message Down Under, Page: 159
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