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"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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"Sweet pea, you are my favorite hello and my hardest goodbye, and I don't want to go a day without you. Consider that your official invitation."
"Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him."
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"When attachment increases too much, dislike will arise."
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"Wherever there is ownership, there is upadhi (externally induced problems)."
"Once an opinion is formed, there will be attachment-abhorrence. A person without opinion is also without attachment-abhorrence."
"And I have to say, books haven't helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there's always a state or an abstract noun, and I try to think of it like that. But actually, love is, Well, it's just you. And when you go, it's gone. Nothing abstract about it."
"Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex-toy."
"He leaned against her, pressing his shoulder into hers. "Don't be mad at me," he said, sighing. "It makes me crazy.""I'm never mad at you," she said."Right.""I'm not.""You must just be mad near me a lot."
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"You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable."
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"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."
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"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."
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