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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

By Tara Brach
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Tara Brach, PhD, is an American psychologist and insight meditation (vipassana) teacher. Her writing, teaching, and speaking discuss emotional healing and spiritual awakening and bring together principles from Western psychology and Buddhist thought and practice.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageAvoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

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Harriet Lerner
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIt 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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FindCenter Quotes ImageMental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’

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C. S. Lewis
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FindCenter Quotes ImageSince in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

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Rumi
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FindCenter Quotes ImageLife’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.

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Pema Chödrön
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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

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J. Krishnamurti
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FindCenter Quotes ImageAnyone who has made us suffer is undoubtedly suffering too.

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Thich Nhat Hanh
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FindCenter Quotes ImageForgiveness is not just a selfish pursuit of personal satisfaction or righteousness. It actually alleviates the amount of suffering in the world.

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Noah Levine
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FindCenter Quotes ImageThe greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.

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Noah Levine
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