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What Now?: Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond by Yael Shy

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I was deeply, existentially anxious. I was hungry for instruction and guidance on how to be, not just how to take deep breaths.

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“I've come to realize that you never know who your enemies are..then comes a storm to shake things up...I guess it's in the whirlwinds of the storm the dirt is separated from the water...so God can skim the dirt off the top. Your enemies reveal themselves..just be still in the storm!”
― Mrs. W

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“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen. I applied for jobs and turned up for seminars. Things went on.”
― Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends

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“We skip the moments like stones.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

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“If you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: imagination, life, power-of-thoughts, truth, words-to-ponder

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“We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

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