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Rhiannon Bacon
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"Many of us are willing to spend six or eight years studying to get a diploma. We believe it's necessary for us to be happy. But very few of us are willing to spend three or six months, or even a year, training ourselves to handle our sadness or our anger, to listen with compassion, and to use loving speech." — Apr 16, 2026 09:25AM
"Many of us are willing to spend six or eight years studying to get a diploma. We believe it's necessary for us to be happy. But very few of us are willing to spend three or six months, or even a year, training ourselves to handle our sadness or our anger, to listen with compassion, and to use loving speech." — Apr 16, 2026 09:25AM
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"If we take care of the suffering inside us, we have more clarity, energy, and strength to help address the suffering violence, poverty, and inequity of our loved ones as well as the suffering in our community and the world. If we know how to take care of our suffering, we not only suffer much, much less, we also create more happiness around us and in the world." — Feb 22, 2026 03:35PM
"If we take care of the suffering inside us, we have more clarity, energy, and strength to help address the suffering violence, poverty, and inequity of our loved ones as well as the suffering in our community and the world. If we know how to take care of our suffering, we not only suffer much, much less, we also create more happiness around us and in the world." — Feb 22, 2026 03:35PM
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"The question you need to ask is not "What's wrong with me?" but rather "What is right about this behavior?" Most people try to attack habits from the angle of behavior modification rather than behavior comprehension. Your habits serve a function. Knowing the function of your habit is key to changing it." — Mar 02, 2026 06:55PM
"The question you need to ask is not "What's wrong with me?" but rather "What is right about this behavior?" Most people try to attack habits from the angle of behavior modification rather than behavior comprehension. Your habits serve a function. Knowing the function of your habit is key to changing it." — Mar 02, 2026 06:55PM
“I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism.”
― The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
― The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts
“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world," he said wisely one day, "but people don't know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“There is all the difference in the world between treasure and money.”
― The Great Good Thing
― The Great Good Thing
“The kind of teacher who never learned anything herself. Or taught anything, except sarcasm or fear.”
― Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
― Piratica: Being a Daring Tale of a Singular Girl's Adventure Upon the High Seas
“In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
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