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"We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive-and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation."
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"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."

"Herbs may be bitter, but cure."

"It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget-and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change."

"A wound won't heal if you keep touching it."
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"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."


"It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It's not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it's eminently possible."


"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."


"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."


"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."


"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."


"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."
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