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"From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs."
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"There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart."

"We touch people mostly without touching them: We touch them with our words, with our smile, with our eyes, with our courage, with our madness, with millions of different ways! What are we? We are contacting beings without contacting!"

"Wherever I travel to, I encounter great souls."

"I'll think about you every day. Part of me is scared that there will come a time when you don't feel the same way,that you'll somehow forget what we shared, so this is what I want to do. Wherever you are and no matter what's going on in your life, when it's the first night of the full moon-like it was the first time we met-I want you to find it in the nighttime sky. I want you to think about me and the week we shared, because wherever I am and no matter what's going on in my life, that's exactly what I'll be doing. If we can't be together, at least we can share that, and maybe between the two of us, we can make it last forever."

"I know I'm not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I'll be forever in your heart."

"True Love is a spiritual force that binds two hearts, and two souls, together as one."

"Your heart is a conduit through which the spirit speaks to the mind."

"There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."

"Wrap your mind around my thoughts as I wrap my soul around your heart."

"She watched as he settled down on the bed with Naya skin to skin on his chest. His hand all but covered her tiny body as he stroked her in that changeling way, bonding with her on the most elemental level. Then he purred, and Naya made a happy little sound of delight, very much a cat in her love of touch."
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."

"Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition."

"Respecting differences while gaining insight into our essential connected-ness, we can free ourselves from the impulse to rigidly categorize the world in terms of narrow boundaries and labels."

"Grief helps us to relinquish the illusion that the past could be different from what it was."

"Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what's happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what's happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self."

"The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred."

"Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point."

"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."

"The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets."
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