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The Drummer's Call

by Patricia Leppo

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The Little Drummer Girl

by John le Carré

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“The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience. By accepting absolutely everything, what I mean is that we are aware of what is happening within our body and mind in any given moment, without trying to control or judge or pull away. I do not mean that we are putting up with harmful behavior—our own or another’s. This is an inner process of accepting our actual, present-moment experience. It means feeling sorrow and pain without resisting. It means feeling desire or dislike for someone or something without judging ourselves for the feeling or being driven to act on it.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

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“You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship

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“Playing the victim role: Manipulator portrays him- or herself as a victim of circumstance or of someone else's behavior in order to gain pity, sympathy or evoke compassion and thereby get something from another. Caring and conscientious people cannot stand to see anyone suffering and the manipulator often finds it easy to play on sympathy to get cooperation.”
― George K. Simon Jr., In Sheep's Clothing: Understanding and Dealing With Manipulative People

tags: abuse, abusers, abusive-relationships, affection, emotional, empathic, empaths, empathy, evil, freedom, games, gaslighting, hate, hatred, learning, liberty, love, manipulation, mind, mind-control, narcissism, people, pleaser, psychology, psychopath, relationships, self-knowledge, victims, voluntaryism

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“Mindfulness is the intentional process of paying attention, without judgment, to the unfolding of moment-by-moment experience.”
― Tara Brach, True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart

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“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don’t have. It really isn’t about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, abusive-people, accomplishments, beauty, beotch, bitter-women, blamers, blaming, bringchangetomind-com, bullies

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