A lot of people don’t know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.
BARBARA DE ANGELISSilence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
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They’re basically moments in which you’re in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.
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Living with integrity means… behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values.
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no job is a good job if it isn’t good for you.
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A wise word is more rare than the green emerald, and one can find the word of wisdom even amongst the slave girls making grain.
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Love makes every space sacred and every moment meaningful . . .
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May all that is not love within us and without be healed. May all that is love within us and without us be revealed. May every day of our lives be lived in love.
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Men aren’t the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they’ve been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you’re wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.
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I invite people to examine their lives without negativity, knowing that it’s scary, but that not doing it is even scarier.
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All relationships are your mirrors and all people are your teachers.
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It is inherent in human consciousness to improve. So there is nothing unique about a people searching for and creating ways to make their life better – all civilizations throughout history have done this. What is unique about us in America is the accelerated rate at which we continually search for novelty and progress.
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in all codependent relationships, the rescuer needs the victim as much as the victim needs the rescuer.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Happiness is not an acquisition – it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.
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The greatest gift you and your partner can give your children is the example of an intimate, healthy, and loving relationship.
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Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.
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The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.
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The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
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If you don’t develop your skill at enjoying what you have, you won’t be any happier when you get more.
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Love’s greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.
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Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.
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It is easy to be mindless in America, because dreaming of and living for a better tomorrow is the American way. … The problem is, in the second half of the twentieth century, we have gotten so good at living for tomorrow that most of us spend very little time in the present.
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