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"Our senses are often the gateway to our stories."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
"There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."
"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."
"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."
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"No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It's how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable."
"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."
"When we approach the journey acknowledging what we do not know and what we can't control, we maintain our energy for the quest."
"When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring."
"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."
"If we turn away from our own pain, we may find ourselves projecting this aversion onto others, seeing them as somehow inadequate for being in a troubled situation."
"Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience."
"When we experience dissatisfaction at work, which everyone does we can use our disappointment as fuel to wake up."
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