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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
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Questioning ourselves for being ‘oversensitive’ is a common way that women, in particular, disqualify our legitimate anger and hurt. . . . The fact that some of us feel more vulnerable than others in a particular context does not mean we are weak or lesser in any way.
It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is avoidance. You want to feel comfortable so you avoid doing or saying the thing that will evoke fear and other difficult emotions.
When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego’s will to prevail.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
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