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"When we don't tell those we love about what's really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories."
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"A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best!"

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"The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life."

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"God gave you the art to talk and you will just ignore it like these?"

"What's the meaning of ignore? You hear somebody, but you never asnwer to him!"

"Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order."

"A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string."

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"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."


"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."


"When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently."


"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it."


"The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people. Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others."


"Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues."


"When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way."


"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."


"Mindfulness won't ensure you'll win an argument with your sister. Mindfulness won't enable you to bypass your feelings of anger or hurt either. But it may help you see the conflict in a new way, one that allows you to break through old patterns."


"When we experience inner impoverishment, love for another too easily becomes hunger: for reassurance, for acclaim, for affirmation of our worth."
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