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"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."
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Personal Development
"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."
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Personal Development
"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."
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Personal Development
"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."
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Personal Development
"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."
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Personal Development
"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
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Personal Development
"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."
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Personal Development
"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."
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Personal Development
"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."
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Personal Development
"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."
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"Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That's life. That's human nature."
Relationship
"Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people."
Relationship
"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."
Relationship
"From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters."
Philosophy
"Everyone we interact with has the capacity to surprise us in an infinite number of ways. What can first open us up to each of our innate capacities for love is merely to recognize that."
Relationship
"Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence."
Compassion
"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."
Mindfulness
"Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment."
Mindfulness
"Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others."
Relationship
"Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects of ourselves. We can open to everything with the healing force of love. When we feel love, our mind is expansive and open enough to include the entirety of life in full awareness, both its pleasures and its pains, we feel neither betrayed by pain or overcome by it, and thus we can contact that which is undamaged within us regardless of the situation. Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be."
Compassion
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