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The Tea Shop

Karl Forehand

Top 10 Best Quotes

“I long to see a world of people that imagine how they will treat each other before they consider how exceptional they are.”

“Bypassing the issue does not solve the root causes of that issue, it just makes a person feel better until the issue reappears in different ways or in different parts of the body.”

“We cannot say we are followers of Christ and not love our neighbors and our enemies. It is incongruent and doesn’t even make sense when reading His words.”

“The nature of the adventure is that we often find something different than what we were searching for.”

“In a movie, the dream sequence makes the present cloudy and brings into focus a different time or imagination. In life, time travel clouds the present. I am not fully experiencing what I can be when I am future tripping or past journeying. I am not really hearing my wife, I’m not really experiencing a situation, or I’m not truly living if I am not living in the now.”

“I was beginning to understand what I knew as a kid. Sometimes the best adventures are the ones that are unscripted.”

“I think because we were created for and from a relationship, living from a heart of love, delight is the natural state for those in a relationship that allow it to happen.”

“I am realizing, though, that it takes practice to stay present.”

“I am learning to “sit” with problems and own them instead of trying to bypass them. I am learning to empathize with people instead of trying to find a quick solution to their issues.”

“God is experienced most vividly in relationship.”

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