Top 33 Wayne Muller Quotes

#1. For thousands of years we have gathered in circle
around fires, around bodies, around altars
because we can't do this alone.

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#2. We are called to be strong companions and clear mirrors to one another, to seek those who reflect with compassion and a keen eye how we are doing, whether we seem centered or off course ... we need the nourishing company of others to create the circle needed for growth, freedom and healing.

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#3. Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.

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#4. True kindness is rooted in a deep sense of abundance, out of which flows a sense that even as I give, it is being given back to me.

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#5. If we do not allow for a rhythm of rest in our overly busy lives, illness becomes our Sabbath - our pneumonia, our cancer, our heart attack, our accidents create Sabbath for us.

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#6. Like a path through the forest, Sabbath creates a marker for ourselves so, if we are lost, we can find our way back to our center.

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#7. Gratitude invites a sense of sufficiency.

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#8. The more spacious and larger our fundamental nature, the more bearable the pains in living.

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#9. What we love and what captures our curiosity draws us forward into some place of great destiny.

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#10. Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain ... surrounded by things ... we imagine are subject to our control.

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#11. Can it then be that what we call the 'self' is fluid and elastic? It evolves, strikes a different balance with every new breath.

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#12. Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.

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#13. To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

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#14. All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life.

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#15. Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

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#16. Effortlessness is the ability to slow down and listen for the spaces between the joints ... Deep within all things there is a natural rhythm, a music of opening and closing, expansion and contraction.

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#17. Be not afraid. A kind life, a life of spirit, is fundamentally a life of courage-the courage simply to bring what you have, to bring who you are.

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#18. With every breath, the possibility of a new aspect of self arises.

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#19. The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.

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#20. We become what we love. Whatever you are giving your time and attention to, day after day, is the kind of person you will eventually become.

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#21. Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.

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#22. The heart of most spiritual practices is simply this: Remember who you are. Remember what you love. Remember what is sacred. Remember what is true. Remember that you will die and that this day is a gift. Remember how you wish to live.

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#23. Because we do not rest we lose our way ... Poisoned by the hypnotic belief that good things come only through unceasing determination and tireless effort, we never truly rest. And for want of rest, our lives are in danger.

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#24. In the soil of the quick fix is the seed of a new problem, because our quiet wisdom is unavailable.

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#25. A kind life ... is fundamentally a life of courage.

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#26. Even in the middle of a hurricane, the bottom of the sea is calm. As the storm rages and the winds howl, the deep waters sway in gentle rhythm, a light movement of fish and plant life. Below there is no storm.

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#27. When we do what we love, again and again, our life comes to hold the fragrance of that thing.

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#28. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

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#29. What we choose to love is very important for what we love leads our eyes, ears, and hearts on a pilgrimage that shapes the texture of our lives.

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#30. What if the healing of the world utterly depends on the ten-thousand invisible kindnesses we offer simply and quietly throughout the pilgrimage of each human life?

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#31. Every day, we are given countless opportunities to offer our gifts to those at work, in our families, our relationships ... If you give less than what you are, you dishonor the gift of your own precious life.

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#32. We equate choice with freedom, but they are not the same.

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#33. What is at the center of your life? Carefully examine where you spend your attention, your time. Look at your appointment book, your daily schedule.... This is what receives your care and attention
an by definition, your love.

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