By Gary Zukav — 2009
The dynamic is the same whether the change appears minor, major, or ultimate -- resistance to change, not change itself, creates stress.
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I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.
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