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Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid.
Pema Chödrön
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It isn't sadness or anger or guilt that limits our access to the heart; it's our negative attachment to these emotions, our intense wish for them to be otherwise, our dark dance with them. But by moving toward these feelings we have always pulled away from and exploring them moment by moment, heartbeat to heartbeat, breath to breath, we come to see clearly their inner nature.
Stephen Levine
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Pablo Picasso
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The Serenity Prayer
God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next. Amen.
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Meeting the Enemy: The third near enemy of compassion is idiot compassion. This is when we avoid conflict and protect our good image by being kind when we should say a definite "no". Compassion doesn't imply only trying to be good. When we find ourselves in an aggressive relationship, we need to set clear boundaries. The kindest thing we can do for everyone concerned it to know when to say "enough". Many people use Buddhist ideals to justify self-debasement. In the name of not shutting our heart, we let people walk all over us. It is said that in order not to break our vow of compassion we have to learn when to stop aggression and draw the line. There are times when the only way to bring down the barriers is to set boundaries.
Pema Chödrön
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The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.
Isadora Duncan
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Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham
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In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
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I wish ! could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.
Hafiz
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There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.
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| Chuck Britt, MA, LMFT and Connie Bonner-Britt, MA, LMFT |
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