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"There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others."
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"I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it.By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are."

"Love is the essential ingredient. Without it, sex is meaningless, approval is bribery, and success is short-lived."

"A thousand times, people may have touched each other, but never ever sensed a single vein of oneness or complicity in the wilderness of their inner world, since obdurate mental impediments have been barricading the road to understanding and propinquity. ['A thousand times']"

"Whenever he felt like giving up, plopping himself down, and dying (which was, like, every ten minutes), he reached over and took her hand, just to remember there was warmth in the world."

"The most spectacular moment of my daily life is connection with a stranger by communication."

"Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body."

"I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you."

"She wrapped her fingers around his and touched his palm with her thumb. Her fingers were trembling.Park shifted in his seat and turned his back to the aisle."Okay?" she whispered.He nodded, taking a deep breath. They both stared down at their hands.Jesus."

"Sincerity increases willingness to care."

"They'd been forged of the same ore, two sides of the same golden, scarred coin. She'd know it when she spied him atop the execution plataform. She couldn't explain it. No one could understand that instant bond, that soul-deep assurance and rightness, unless they, too, had experienced it. But she owned no explanations to anyone - not about Aedion."
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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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Like water poured from one vessel to another, metta flows freely, taking the shape of each situation without changing its essence."


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


"Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment."
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