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Last Wednesday Wisdom for November

11/30/2016

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On the last Wednesday of every month, I serve up a potpourri of advice, inspiration and other tidbits I've come across in recent weeks. This month I'm focusing on themes that are on many people's minds these days, in many contexts. 

As a bonus for reading to the end, I'm including a selection of photos celebrating the colorful autumn season that's drawing to a close.
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[I said to Suzuki Roshi,] "I could listen to you for a thousand years and still not get it. Could you just please put it in a nutshell? Can you reduce Buddhism to one phrase? . . . He was not a man you could pin down, and he didn't like to give his students something definite to cling to. He had often said not to have "some idea" of what Buddhism was. But Suzuki did answer. He looked at me and said, "Everything changes."
-- David Chadwick
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No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
-- Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
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Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
-- Jalaluddin Rumi 
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
Mahatma Ghandi
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Action is the antidote to despair.
-- Joan Baez
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The narrow-minded ask, “Is this man a stranger, or is he of our tribe?” but to those in whom love dwells the whole world is but one family.
-- Anonymous (often misattributed to Buddha)
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No language is neutral. To speak is to claim a life--and often our own. If more Americans speak to one another, in writing, in media, at the supermarket, we might listen better. It is difficult, I think, to hate one another when we start to understand not only why and how we hurt, but also why and how we love.
-- Ocean Vuong, poet and essayist, in Poets & Writers, September/October 2016
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10 Comments
Tonya Howe
11/30/2016 06:43:39 am

These are the

most wonderful quotes that you have gathered here! I totally belive in the martin luther king lines,

Beech leaves are of my favorites, also like pic of your shoes :)

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Nan
11/30/2016 07:54:18 am

Thanks for reading and looking, Tonya. Hope to see you soon!

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Nan
12/1/2016 09:23:20 am

P.S. to Tonya: I got some new hiking shoes, but they're so nice I don't want to wear them outdoors and get them dirty, so I'm still wearing the old ones.

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Susan Stec link
11/30/2016 10:16:32 am

Beautiful words and wonderful color. A very inspiring post this month, Nan.

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Cindi McDonald
11/30/2016 04:06:52 pm

A beautiful way to end this month.
Thank you, Nancy. You always seem to know what we need and when we need it.

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Cris wyns
11/30/2016 07:01:10 pm

I went first to your pics because it has been such a beautiful fall and I too have enjoyed being out with my camera, my favorites are your focus on the red oak leaf stems attachment to the branch, and the sun star through beech leaves.
My favorite quote is Nelson Mandella's. Thank you for sharing!

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Nan
12/7/2016 07:23:19 am

I think those are my favorites, too, Cris. I'd love to see some of your photos!

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Emily Everett
12/1/2016 03:49:11 am

Ahhh ........ I so needed this.

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Nan
12/7/2016 07:24:24 am

Thanks, everyone, for reading and commenting!

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JQ Rose link
12/28/2016 01:08:10 pm

Gorgeous photos! Definite winners there. Always love your tidbit collection of wise and inspiring quotes. Thank you.

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