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Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
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There is light in darkness. You just have to find it.
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If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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When we do not put our primary emotional energy into solving our own problems, we take on other people’s problems as our own.
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.
The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.