Only awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience.
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Zen Buddhism Teaches Us of the Importance of Living in the Present
By Tim Lott — 2012
Forget about learning from the past and applying those lessons to the future: reclaim and expand the present moment.
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