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Right Here with You: Bringing Mindful Awareness into Our Relationships

In recent years scientists have discovered that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve mood, and enhance our sense of well-being.

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Andrea Miller (editor), Harold Kushner, John Welwood, Elizabeth Gilbert, Thich Nhat Hanh, Tara Brach (contributors)
2011
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FindCenter Quotes ImageMarriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe act of quiet nighttime talking illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTake me someplace where we can be silent together.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageSoul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo feel physically comfortable with someone else’s body is not a decision you can make. It has very little to do with how two people think or act or talk or even look. The mysterious magnet is either there, buried somewhere deep behind the sternum, or it is not.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne thing I do know about intimacy is that there are certain natural laws which govern the sexual experience of two people, and that these laws cannot be budged any more than gravity can be negotiated with.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageYou can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageReal, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school—is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMarriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel.

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