“Part of that change is forgiveness and the willingness to look at our lives and the world differently. Ask yourself ‘Do I really want to change or do I just want to justify staying the way that I am?”
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
“stop justifying our story. We stop clinging to the past. We recognize that if we want to go forward we will need to change.”
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
“It’s just about being you and being cool with that. And I think when you’re authentic, you end up following your heart, and you put yourself in places and situations and conversations that you love and that you enjoy. You meet people that you like talking to. You go places you’ve dreamt about. And you end up following your heart and feeling very fulfilled.”
― Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
― Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds
“the material world is an illusion and its treasures all too temporal. That doesn’t mean you have to live as a monk, although that is one way out of it, it just means you can never quench your spiritual craving through material means. Gratitude for where you are and what you have is one important coordinate for retuning our consciousness. Similarly acceptance.”
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
“We have been taught that freedom is the freedom to pursue our petty, trivial desires. Real freedom is freedom from our petty, trivial desires.”
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
― Recovery: Freedom from Our Addiction
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