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“People everywhere feel pain--jealousy, anger, being left out, feeling lonely. Everybody feels it in the painful way you feel it. The story lines vary, but the underlying feeling is the same for us all.”
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“Sen gökyüzüsün. Diğer her şey sadece hava durumu.”
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“I will spend my life taking this armor off. Nobody else can take it off because nobody else knows where all the little locks are, nobody else knows where it's sewed up tight, where it's going to take a lot of work to get that particular iron thread untied. You have to do it alone. The basic instruction is simple: Start taking off that armor. That's all anyone can tell you. No one can tell you how to do it because you're the only one who knows how you locked yourself in there to start.”
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“What evokes hope and fear for me is different from what brings it up for you.”
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“We fear losing our illusion of security--that's what makes us anxious. The mind is always seeking zones of safety, and these zones of safety are continually falling apart. Then we scramble to get another zone of safety back together again. That's the essence of samsara--the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.”
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