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The Orphaned Adult: Understanding And Coping With Grief And Change After The Death Of Our Parents
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There is no experience quite as stunning as when there is nothing where something has always been. To try and imagine the absence of something is to imagine the thing itself, not the hole left behind.
“Don’t confuse staying the course with clinging to a cursed ‘how’.”
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
“Whosoever may torment you, harass you, confound you, or upset you is a teacher. Not because they’re wise, but because you seek to become so.”
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
“Staying the course” should not be confused with clinging to a cursed “how.”
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
“Actually, it’s pretty simple. You have one real choice: To do your best, with what you have, from where you are. Everything else is just stalling.”
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
― Notes from the Universe: New Perspectives from an Old Friend
“Making sense of a past that made no sense is opening to the sensations of the past and putting them together now to see how they impacted you then, and how you can free yourself to live the life you want now. That’s why making sense makes so much integrative sense. We cannot change the past, but we can change how we understand the way it has impacted us and how we liberate ourselves in the present to free ourselves for the future.”
― Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--A Complete Guide to the Groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness Meditation Practice
― Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence--A Complete Guide to the Groundbreaking Wheel of Awareness Meditation Practice
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