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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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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.
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Safety is not the absence of threat, it is the presence of connection.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
Mental 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.’