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FindCenterLove allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul.

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John O’Donohue
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FindCenterPerhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
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FindCenterThe act of quiet nighttime talking illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
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FindCenterA gift, to be a gift, has to be accepted. Otherwise it lies like a burden between people.

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Rob Fisher
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FindCenterWhat you really long for is a deep intimacy with your own experience—the deepest acceptance of every thought, every sensation, every feeling. And that cannot come from outside of yourself.

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Jeff Foster
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