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‘I Allow Myself a Mini-Wallow’: How to Handle Rejection in the Arts

By Abby Young-Powell — 2018

No matter how talented you are, if you work in the creative arts, you’ll likely experience rejection—whether it’s losing a job, or getting your ideas, art, funding applications, or pitches turned down.

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How ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.

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Elizabeth Lesser
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A. H. Almaas: How Does Suffering and Heartache Awaken the Deepest “Capacities of the Heart”

In this offering, Tami Simon and A. H. Almaas delve into a higher perspective of resilience—the spiritual dimension of ourselves that supports us amid the challenges of our physical reality.

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A. H. Almaas
2020
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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C. S. Lewis
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Buddha’s Heart: Meditation Practice for Developing Well-Being, Love, and Empathy

With Buddha’s Heart, senior meditation teacher Stephen Snyder reveals an original and clear path to the powerful brahmavihāras. These practices offer rich, soothing support for the soul and a portal to spiritual awakening and deepening self-realization.

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Stephen Snyder
2020
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