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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. - Winston Churchill

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If a nation loses its storytellers, it loses its childhood. - Peter Handke

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It is better to stay silent and be thought a fool, than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

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“Sometimes, Grace throws you and your ‘world’ into the washing machine, full spin, so that the fearful and controlling tendency is compelled to offer itself to the Totality—to the will and dance of the Cosmos.”

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“Of course, when you allow yourself to feel any emotion you’ve been avoiding, it probably won’t feel good. But you can handle that, because you’re not a child any longer. The emotions may feel dangerous, but they aren’t. You’re an adult, and you can love yourself through it. You can do hard things! And if it feels too scary and you want support, no shame, no blame. You can always find the support you need to help you do hard things.”

— from How to Stop Luggage Around Your Old Emotional Baggage

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“Be thankful for every heartbreak, for they were planned. They come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave. Their purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life. And you do.”

— Unknown

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“Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we’re heading toward an unhealthy path, and if so, let go and change directions.”

— Sharon Salzberg, “Mindfulness and Difficult Emotions”

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“The spiritual journey is not a transition from human to divinity. It is the willingness to erase every imaginary line that distinguishes human from divine, as if they’re two separate realities.”

— Matt Kahn

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Troubles are a lot like people, they grow bigger if you nurse them. - Unknown

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Your heart will tell you where to go. Your head will guide you there safely. Use one without the other and you’ll get lost. - D.R. Harris

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"When you go out into the woods and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You appreciate it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get near humans, you lose all that. And you are constantly saying “You’re too this, or I’m too this.” That judging mind comes in. And so I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are."

—Ram Dass

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