Kate Johnson is an American meditation teacher and author focusing on mindfulness and awareness practices.
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Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.
Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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The overuse of prescription drugs provides a vacation from personal responsibility.
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch—there’s not a chance.
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It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.