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Caretakers of The Mystery
One of the best things that never happened to me was not finding a life mentor.
I never found the one teacher, the one book, or the one practice that made everything clear. And so I was forced to live life on its own terms and to accept life itself as my primary teacher….
— Jim Rigby
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“That we could be together for twenty years. That is something which sustains me and it’s much more meaningful. . . . The way he treated me and the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other and our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday. I don’t think I’ll ever see Carl again. But I saw him. We saw each other. We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
― Ann Druyan
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There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves…the heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.
— From Native Hope
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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point…