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Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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One of the deepest purposes of all art is to marry what is with what can be.
Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
Finally I saw that everything had come to nothing. and gave it up. and took my old body and went out into the morning and sang.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
We are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives overflowing with peace, happiness, and love.
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.