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Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.


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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.



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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.



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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.



So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.



It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.



All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.



To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.



Feel the feelings and drop the story.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.



The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.



All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.





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When we turn to the heavens to look for inspiration, we miss the most important piece, and that is the person right there next to us.

When we turn to the heavens to look for inspiration, we miss the most important piece, and that is the person right there next to us.



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… between the irrational promoted in churches and the Darwinian pseudo-science taught in schools, a revolution in the way we understand reality is not only necessary but also long overdue.



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I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.



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Intimidation doesn't last very long.



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Minimum wage laws make it illegal for a worker to accept a job that pays less, even if the worker needs that job.



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Prog rock, with a little good taste, is ok. I tried to bring some of it into this century, I guess.




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This page presents the quote "Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life.". Author of this quote is Pema Chodron. This quote is about death, trying, life, running away, answers, immediacy, running, experience,.