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“Define strong boundaries, but remain kind. Be fearless and never afraid to say what you really think or feel. It is the denial of our truths that complicates life. There is no need to fear what you feel unless you have no ability to control the way your feelings make you react - this is when you should fear. Anything else is wasted energy. Life is meant to be lived - not hidden from.”

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Author:Sai Marie Johnson
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“But whoever develops mindfulness of death, thinking, 'O, that I might live for the interval that it takes to swallow having chewed up one morsel of food... for the interval that it takes to breathe out after breathing in, or to breathe in after breathing out, that I might attend to the Blessed One's instructions. I would have accomplished a great deal' — they are said to dwell heedfully. They develop mindfulness of death acutely for the sake of ending the effluents. "Therefore you should train yourselves: 'We will dwell heedfully. We will develop mindfulness of death acutely for the sake of ending the effluents.' That is how you should train yourselves. -Manassatti sutta (AN 6.19 PTS: A iii 303)”

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Author:Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu
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“In the initial stages, this usually involved evaluating how you were relating to the breath, and detecting more subtle levels of breath energy in the body that would provide a basis for deeper levels of stillness. Once the breath was perfectly still, and the sense of the body started dissolving into a formless mist, this process would involve detecting the perceptions of "space," "knowing," "oneness," etc., that would appear in place of the body and could be peeled away like the layers of an onion in the mind. In either case, the basic pattern was the same: detecting the level of perception or mental fabrication that was causing the unnecessary stress, and dropping it for a more subtle level of perception or fabrication until there was nothing left to drop. -Jhana Not By the Numbers”

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Author:Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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“A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock. I'm never going to live in fear.”

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Book:How to Stop Time
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“For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I’ve been there; I get it. That’s why the far-future should never be at the top of our “to-plan” list. It’s alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.”

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Book:From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
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“Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri
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“If you are grateful for where you are, you have to respect the rode that got you there. We must appreciate all that we survive, the small, the medium and the monumental. Find gratitude in your life story. Wake up every morning and say to yourself I made it here from where I started and I am so proud of that. When we do this, we bless ourselves and feed ourselves with the love to flourish and keep going no matter where we come from or what we have been through.”

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Book:Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
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“If we all work together there is no telling how we can change the world through the impact of promoting positivity online.”

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Author:Germany Kent
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“The dark season is not a sign that we have failed the spiritual life. It is a sign that the spiritual life has reached the place where the deepest work can finally begin — the work that the easier seasons, with all their warmth and light, could never quite reach.”

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Book:The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
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“A person cannot rise while carrying what was never meant to be part of them. The lower self is not the essence of a human being. It is the accumulation of habits, impulses, fears, and desires that form over time. These qualities feel familiar, but they are not foundational. They are layers that obscure the soul’s original clarity. When they dominate, they distort perception. They make a noble soul believe it is ordinary. They make a luminous heart believe it is dim. They make a capable spirit believe it is weak. This forgetfulness is the real fall — not a fall from God, but a fall from one’s own potential. The qualities that weigh a person down are not simply moral flaws. They are barriers. Arrogance blinds. Jealousy corrodes. Greed consumes. Resentment hardens. Dishonesty fractures the inner world. The hunger for validation enslaves. The refusal to forgive imprisons. These traits do not merely harm others; they diminish the one who carries them. They pull the soul downward, away from its natural orientation toward light.”

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Author:Ayisha Bhatti
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“You cannot change what happened. You cannot unsay the words, unmake the choices, remove the circumstances that arrived without your permission and shaped you in ways you would not have chosen. That territory is closed. But how you carry what happened — what meaning you make of it, what it teaches you, what you build from it, what kind of person you decide to become in the light of having lived through it — that territory remains entirely open. The past does not have the authority to determine your future. It has the authority only to inform it. And informing is not the same as determining. What you do with what you have lived through — the wisdom you extract from it, the compassion it produces in you, the understanding of yourself and of others that it has made possible — that is still yours to shape.”

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Book:DEAR YOU: For When You Need It
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“What we had done was to seek out, in our chosen home community, those things that were the most meaningful to us. We realized that it is all too easy to ignore the natural beauty and simple pleasure right around us and to complain instead about dull surroundings or the inevitable hard knocks of life.”

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Book:Everything to Gain: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life
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“Wisdom lives in silence. Not the wisdom of accumulated information, which is only knowledge, but the wisdom that comes from sitting with experience long enough to understand what it was actually teaching. Hurry gives us events. Silence gives us meaning.”

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Book:The Unhurried Soul: Learning to Live from the Inside Out
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“A positive attitude eventually begets positive experiences. Choose to be happy. Decide you are well or happy instead of unwell or unhappy, and your experience of living will begin to shift. The mind is the one thing in this world we are able to control, so let’s control it!”

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Book:Inquire Within: A Guide to Living in Spirit
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“Sometimes the light is hidden in plain sight, blocked out by our egos. Wisdom bids us to move out of our own way in order to perform the sacred right, to shine our light upon the waters of the earth. If the brave soul attempts this Herculean feat, it may be surprised. Surprised that new life comes into our hope dreams and aspirations. My wish is that the world be allowed to see your true and magnificent soul, untethered from the darkness of the ego.”

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Author:Inshan Meahjohn
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“The Practice of Staying Sometime this week, choose one conversation you have been avoiding or managing carefully because it feels charged, tender, or unresolved. Before you enter it, pause. Take three slow breaths. Say quietly to yourself: “I am here to stay in relationship, not to win.” During the conversation, practice one simple discipline: Do not interrupt. Do not correct. Do not prepare your reply while the other person is speaking. Listen long enough to be changed. You do not need to resolve anything. You do not need to persuade anyone. Your only commitment is presence. Afterward, notice what shifted inside you. Not what you achieved, but what you encountered. That is the field where wisdom grows.”

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Author:Cameron Trimble
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“Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn't to be judged. Repeat the above each day.”

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Author:Brittany Burgunder
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