To write grief onto a page of lined paper until tears blur the ink is often the surest access to giving or receiving forgiveness.
“Failures, and how one frames them, are the most decisive aspect of anyone’s trajectory in life.”
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
“I have no coherent thoughts, just a rush of feeling, like oversaturated, garish bursts of color.”
― Days of Distraction
― Days of Distraction
“There are no intrinsically sacred objects or experiences; they are made sacred by the special context that we give them.”
― The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection
― The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection
“However, no accumulation of things on its own can grant access to happiness, to an interior state of plenitude.”
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
― How to Make Good Things Happen: Know Your Brain, Enhance Your Life
“Let it all happen as you watch: thoughts…sensations…feelings. It’s all just weather, while you are the sky. As the sky, you just let the weather pass. …You simply watch…label…and let go.”
― Love Me, Don't Leave Me: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships
― Love Me, Don't Leave Me: Overcoming Fear of Abandonment and Building Lasting, Loving Relationships
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