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“The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.”
― Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
― Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
“28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.”
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
― Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
“Look deeply at your anger, as you would look at your own child. Don’t reject it or hate it. The point of meditation is not to turn yourself into a battlefield, one side opposing the other. Conscious breathing soothes and calms the anger, and mindfulness penetrates it. Anger is just an energy, and all energies can be transformed. Meditation is the art of using one kind of energy to transform another.”
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“No matter how bad you think this day is going, affirm:
"I'm alive, I'm growing, I'm learning, and it is only temporary.”
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"I'm alive, I'm growing, I'm learning, and it is only temporary.”
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“That’s what meditation is all about, to be capable of being alone. And remember, aloneness is not loneliness. Loneliness is the state of the person who cannot live alone; loneliness means you are dependent on the crowd, on the other. Aloneness means you are happy with yourself, you are not dependent on anybody. The moment you are not dependent you are an emperor, you are a god, a goddess. Now you have something to share, you can go into the world.”
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