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"I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace."
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"If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime."
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"The truth of life is that almost all that we achieve through pain is the best medicine for us, as most drugs are bitter."
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"I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people."
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"Sorrow is an opportunity to appreciate happiness."
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"We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we desperately want out, but even though we built them, we can't find the door. Yet maybe if you ask God for help in knowing which direction to face, you'll have a moment of intuition. Maybe you'll see at least one next right step you can take."
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"When we rest, our energy is restored."
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"Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you."
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"Focusing your energy on the things you don't like about yourself is self-sabotage and defeating. When you re-direct all that energy into a more positive direction, you will feel the shift instantly to improve your self-esteem and attitude."
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"Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.)-Pray; discuss your troubles with God.-List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)-Call your mom.-Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.-Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent."
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"It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Time
"The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself."
Spiritual
"Here in this endless and gleaming wildernessI was removed farther than ever from the world of men --And I never saw so close and so clearlyThe image in the mirror of my own soul."
Nature
"To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness."
Happiness
"Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and in the Buddhist Yoga an exact technique was devised for unmasking the illusion of the personality. The human merry-go-round sees many changes: the illusion that cost India the efforts of thousands of years to unmask is the same illusion that the West has labored just as hard to maintain and strengthen."
Illusion
"Muoth was right. On growing old, one becomes more contented than in one's youth, which I will not therefore revile, for in all my dreams I hear my youth like a wonderful song which now sounds more harmonious than it did in reality, and even sweeter."
Youth
"Solitude is independence."
Solitude
"It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is."
Purpose
"Only the ideas that we really live have any value."
Creativity
"You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves."
People
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