This document discusses living a passionate life through writing, meditation, and social justice work. It encourages trusting one's instincts and living without regrets, crossing "gutters with grace" and leaving behind an unshakable peace. Short quotes offer advice to walk gently, meet in a field beyond ideas of right and wrong, use education as a tool to change the world, and find wisdom through self-knowledge.

1. THE ADVENTURES OF
BEING FULLY HUMAN
Laura Ann Lepley
My MCBS Story

2. IT IS THE JAPANESE AESTHETIC OF WABI SABI THAT FULLY
ENCAPSULATES MY INCONGRUENT JOURNEY TO FULL SAIL
UNIVERSITY.

3. THE PASSIONATE LIFE
A passionate life is birthed when one has loved and
lost deeply. When one has loved deeply, meditation
flowers, and then the work for greater social justice
beyond oneself begins.
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4. WRITING IS
LIFE AND LIFE
IS WRITING…
To create something contributes to own
own happiness as well as to the culture
around us…

5. WALK AS IF THE SOLES OF YOUR
FEET ARE KISSING THE EARTH…
—THAY

6. Out Beyond all Ideas of Right and Wrong there is a Field, I
will meet You There
-Rumi

7. LIVE WITHOUT REGRETS
Trust yours guts. Live by true grit and passion. Cross the
gutters with grace and leave in your wake a peace unshakable.
-Johnny Appleseed
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8. It is okay to laugh insanely.

9. EDUCATION IS THE MOST
POWERFUL TOOL YOU CAN
USE TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
Nelson Mandela

10. The greatest wisdom is to know yourself. It is from knowing
yourself that all other knowing comes.
-OSHO