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Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
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No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.
We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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If only our passion to understand others were as great as our passion to be understood. Were this so, all our apologies would be truly meaningful and healing.
When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.
When we take rejection as proof of our inadequacies, it’s hard to allow ourselves to risk being truly seen again. . . . The problem arises when shame kicks in and we aren’t able to view our flaws, limitations, and vulnerabilities in a patient, self-loving way.