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David Richo is an American writer born in 1940. His works primarily focus on personal growth, spiritual cultivation, and interpersonal relationships, which are well-received by readers.

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“The most exciting part of finding out who we are is discovering our own uniqueness, who we are outside the box, beyond the categories in a Psychology 101 textbook. In our inimitable singularity, there is an infinite range of possibility that cannot be tied to any one description of what it means to be human or healthy.”

“Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.”

Mean Reality Change Accepting Humility Accepting Reality

Book:The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

Source: The Five Things We Cannot Change: And the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them

“Mindful grief means mourning and letting go of the past without expectation, fear, censure, blame, shame, control and so forth. Without such mindful grief, neither past nor person can be laid to rest.”

Mean Persons Past Grief Letting Go Expectations Shame Blame Grieving Mourning Censure

Book:How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

Source: How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving

“In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.”

Source: How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration

“Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.”

People Knows Way Believe Mean Play Might Happens Choices Given Hurt Circumstances Protect Intention Harm Good Intentions

Book:Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy

Source: Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy