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Reclaim Your Heart: Personal Insights on Breaking Free from Life's Shackles

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“Yet the people who broke me were not to be blamed any more than gravity can be blamed for breaking the vase. We can't blame the laws of physics when a twig snaps because we leaned on it for support. The twig was never created to carry us.”

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“I could never forget, and the break never mended. Like a glass vase that you place on the edge of a table, once broken, the pieces never quite fit again. However the problem wasn't with the vase, or even that the vases kept breaking. The problem was that I kept putting them on the edge of tables.”

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“We, as humans, are made to seek, love, and strive for what is perfect and what is permanent. We are made to seek what's eternal.”

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“And that's why if we love in dunya with our hearts, it breaks us. That's why this dunya hurts. It is because the definition of dunya, as something temporary and imperfect, goes against everything we are made to yearn for.”

Psychology Islam

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“Emotional pain warns us that we need to make an internal change.”

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“And pain is a pointer to our attachments. That which makes us cry, that which causes us the most pain is where our false attachment lie.”

Psychology Self Help

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“I was expecting this life to be what it is not, and was never meant to be: perfect. And being the idealistic that I am, I was struggling with every cell in my body to make it so. It had to be perfect. And I would not stop until it was. I gave my blood, sweat, and tears to this endeavor: making the dunya into jannah.”

Psychology Islam

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“If our inner state is dependent on something changing and temporary, that inner state will be in a constant state of instability, agitation, and unrest. This means that one moment we're happy, but as soon as that which our happiness depended upon changes, our happiness also changes.”

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“We experience this emotional roller coaster because we can never find stability and lasting peace until our attachment and dependency is on what is stable and lasting.”

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