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21 " when we recognize how much we have received from others, we begin to see our lives as a gift. "
― Daniel D. Maurer , Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress
22 " Faith is the hope that life, after all, isn’t completely falling apart at the seams or taking a nose-dive into a meaningless abyss. "
23 " Spirituality and each spiritual asset are nebulous and only understandable within the narrative of each person’s story. "
24 " The act of faith is to trust, to act not knowing the outcome. To grow in faith is to make those actions as best we can without knowing the end results. "
25 " spirituality does not have to be a scary, excluding, or arcane process, but instead that a spiritual life is a never-ending quest to become a more authentic, whole human being. "
26 " Forgiveness is a process of rebuilding of people’s lives to learn to live in reconciliation with each other, despite what happened. "
27 " That kid should have killed me with that gun, but didn’t. But here’s the thing: I was totally fine with that. Because of the way I was raised, I was fine with it then, in the moment he could have killed me, and I’m fine with it today. I suppose I could have shot back. I could have defended myself. As a soldier, I sure would have been okay with making that choice. I didn’t though, because I wasn’t willing to take that kid’s life in exchange for mine. I knew, right in that moment, that I was okay with dying because it meant that the boy would have gotten to live. He would have been able to grow up with the freedom to decide as a man whether to hate and kill or leave folks be. "
28 " The way we grow up as Natives is that we take that pain and weave it into our lives. We welcome the pain in, because there’s nothing you can do to change it, and by its very existence, the pain has already changed you. We take the pain in, because there is no way you can really compartmentalize or segregate that pain. You have to create the harmony of the good and the bad and say to yourself: the good and the bad come together. The bad stuff happened, it did, but it doesn’t destroy who I am at my core. "