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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Friendship . . . is born at the moment when one man says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .’
No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
One of my greatest lessons at this point in my life is that there is no there. There's only here.
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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.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.
Only awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience.
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The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.