By Sharon Salzberg — 2013
Staying or going, can we be guided by the understanding that it’s OK to want to be happy, and find the determination and audacity to go for it?
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“When I started my undergraduate degree in psychology, my grandmother said she was afraid I would become pagal (“crazy”) because of it.
By showing up and consistently performing, your results speak for themselves.
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I’m learning that my challenge isn’t just to unlearn what my family has taught me, but to put myself in situations that would reaffirm the new lessons I was trying to replace the old ones with.
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