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The only thing that will help you let go, and soften the grip, of that which you’re trying to control, is by authentically and consistently to love yourself, deeper and deeper.

~ Whispers from my mind

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Your heart must become a sea of love.

You mind must become a river of detachment.

~ Sri Chimnoy

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What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse.

Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with.

Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.

~ Eugene T. Gendlin

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Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

- Sylvia Boorstein

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To see a World in grain of sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.

— William Blake

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This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes As an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture,

still treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

~ Rumi

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The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality.

- Henry Miller

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Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way.

- John Stuart Mill

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.

- Terence McKenna

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What I like most about people in my life is people who are careful with me. Careful with my time, careful with my feelings. I like being around careful people. We need to be more careful with each other.

- Kevin Costner

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The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

- Sylvia Boorstein

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whatever we are not consciously choosing, our subconscious will choose for us.

- unknown

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A thousand plastic flowers

Don't make a desert bloom

A thousand empty faces

Don't fill an empty room

- Frederick Perls

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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

- Wayne Dyer

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Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

C.G. Jung

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I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish He didn’t trust me so much.

- Mother Teresa

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Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

- Rumi