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Nor is healing synonymous with self-improvement. Closer to the mark would be to say it is self-retrieval.
“May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May we be free from suffering and the root of suffering. May we not be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering. May we dwell in the great equanimity free from passion, aggression, and prejudice.”
― Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
― Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.”
― Waking Gods
― Waking Gods
“You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.”
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
― We Need to Talk About Kevin
“The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.”
― On Love
― On Love
“If people can't control their own emotions, then they have to start trying to control other people's behavior.”
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