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Shield of Sparrows (Shield of Sparrows, #1)

by Devney Perry (Goodreads Author)

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I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brené Brown

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Shame forces us to put so much value on what other people think that we lose ourselves in the process of trying to meet everyone else’s expectations.

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“Mind is defined in Buddhism as mere clarity and awareness. It exists as a never-ending continuum of brief moments of awareness.”
― Venerable Adrian Feldmann, The World and Ourselves: Buddhist Psychology

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“I have come to see that mental states are also ecosystems. These sometimes friendly and at times hazardous terrains are natural environments embedded in the greater system of our character.”
― Joan Halifax, Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet

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“Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.”
― Christopher K. Germer, The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions

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“According to Buddhism, there is no supreme person who passes judgement and rewards or punishes us. The records of our deeds are not written in a book in the sky, they are imprinted upon our mind-streams simultaneously with the actions we perform.”
― Venerable Adrian Feldmann, The World and Ourselves: Buddhist Psychology

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“Regardless of what is going on, it’s actually fine, regardless of how messy, how painful, how blustery. It’s fine, until that voice, ever so subtle, comes in to evaluate the situation, and tries to pull away or control it. That’s resistance. And more to the point, the resistance is the hardship.”
― Kiran, Tools for Sanity

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