Kent Nerburn Quotes

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• Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others lay brown beneath the August sun. Care for those around you. Look past your differences. Their dreams are no less than yours, their choices in life no more easily made. And give. Give in any way you can, of whatever you possess. To give is to love. To withhold is to wither. Care less for your harvest than how is shared, and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

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  Dream, Children, Heart

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• We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

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  Thinking, May, Moments

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• Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. loneliness is small, solitude is large. loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nodbody answers; solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.

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  Loneliness, Being Alone, Becoming One

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.55, New World Library

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• Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

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  Fathers Day, Heart, Son

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.21, New World Library

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• Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

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  Past, Miracle, Darkness

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• That is why we need to travel. If we don't offer ourself to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes small and we lose our sense of wonder. Our eyes don't lift to the horizon; our ears don't hear the sounds around us. The edge is off our experience, and we pass our days in a routine that is both comfortable and limiting. We wake up one day and find that we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.

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  Dream, Eye, Our World

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.115, New World Library

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• Place yourself among those who carry on their lives with passion, and true learning will take place, no matter how humble or exalted the setting. But no matter what path you follow, do not be ashamed of your learning. In some corner of your life, you know more about something than anyone else on earth. The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

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  Passion, Learning, Humble

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• When you give of yourself something new comes in to being... the world expands, a bit of goodness is brought forth and a small miracle occurs. You must never underestimate this miracle. Too many good people think they have to become Mother Teresa or Albert Schweitzer, or even Santa Claus, and perform great acts if they are to be givers. They don't see the simple openings of the heart that can be practiced anywhere with almost anyone.

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  Mother, Heart, Simple

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.75, New World Library

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• We live in a world alive with holy moments. We need only take the time to bring these moments into the light.

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  Healing, Light, Needs

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.11, New World Library

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• We must find a way to replace yearning for what life has withheld from us with gratitude for what we have been given.

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  Spiritual, Gratitude, Way

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness”, p.62, New World Library

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• Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

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  Details Of Life, Mindfulness, Pay

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library

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• That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.

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  Home, Space, People

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.111, New World Library

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• It is not our task to judge the worthiness of our path; it is our task to walk our path with worthiness.

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  Judging, Tasks, Path

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.10, New World Library

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• Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days. If you have the wisdom and the courage to go to nature alone, the larger rhythms, the eternal hum, will make itself known all the sooner. When you have found it, it will always be there for you. The peace without will become the peace within, and you will be able to return to it in your heart wherever you find yourself.

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  Nature, Heart, Greatness

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.56, New World Library

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• There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service. There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers. There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life's turbulent current. Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose. It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart.

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  Wisdom, Children, Eye

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• Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

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  Heart, Care, Harvest

  Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.189, New World Library

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• Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

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  Healing, Sadness, Remembrance

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.110, New World Library

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• We are all born with a belief in God. It may not have a name or face. We may not even see it as God. But it is there. It is the sense that comes over us as we stare into the starlit sky, or watch the last fiery rays of an evening sunset. It is the morning shiver as we wake on a beautiful day and smell a richness in the air that we know and love from somewhere we can't quite recall. It is the mystery behind the beginning of time and beyond the limits of space. It is a sense of otherness that brings alive something deep in our hearts.

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  Beautiful, God, Morning

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Simple Truths: Clear and Simple Guidance on the Big Issues in Life”, p.83, New World Library

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• Life is an endlessly creative experience, and we are shaping ourselves at every moment by every decision we make.

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  Creativity, Decisions We Make, Choices

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• Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

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  Love, Wise, Wisdom

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.169, New World Library

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• It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

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  Fathers Day, Dad, Father Son

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• I sometimes like to think of God as a great symphony and the various spiritual paths as instruments in an orchestra. The gift that you have is like music waiting to be played. You need only to find the instrument that will best bring it out. You alone can never play all the instruments, and your music might not find voice in all the instruments. All you can do is find the instrument that suits you best, play it as well as you can, and add your music to the great symphony of divine creation.

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  Spiritual, Thinking, Play

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• Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

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  Dream, Greatest Fear, Horizon

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• Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.

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  Gratitude, Children, Heart

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.203, New World Library

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• The true measure of your education is not what you know, but how you share what you know with others.

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  Share, Live With Passion, Knows

  Kent Nerburn (2014). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love”, p.56, New World Library

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