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“Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“Most of us live in the past, carrying our hurts, guilts and fears. We have to face the pain we carry, lest we spend the rest of our lives running away from it or letting it run us. But the only place you'll ever meet the real is now-here.”

Real Running Pain Past Faces Hurt Our Lives Guilt Running Away

Author:Richard Rohr

“I think that if we just listen to ourselves we know what it is we have to do . . . . And I have come o think that however much it hurts, however hard it is, we have to listen. We have to live our lives.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Hard Hurt Our Lives It Hurts Just Listen

Book:Astrid and Veronika

Source: Astrid and Veronika

“Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Believe Humans Hate Hurt Human Beings Our Lives Solutions I Hate Chaos Neighbor Hated Love Life Thyself Love Thy Neighbor

Author:Byron Katie

“Maybe freedom really is nothing left to lose. You had it once in childhood, when it was okay to climb a tree, to paint a crazy picture and wipe out on your bike, to get hurt. The spirit of risk gradually takes its leave. It follows the wild cries of joy and pain down the wind, through the hedgerow, growing ever fainter. What was that sound? A dog barking far off? That was our life calling to us, the one that was vigorous and undefended and curious.”

Pain Joy Spirit Left Sound Loses Hurt Our Lives Growing Risk Tree Crazy Childhood Dog Cry Wind Calling Okay Paint Curious Climbs Bike Wipe Vigorous Joy And Pain Hedgerows

Author:Peter Heller

“The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.”

Way Feels Wells Persons Hurt Views Our Lives Revolution Fundamentals Unity Oneself Oneness Misfortunes Respecting Others Misfortunes Of Others

Author:Daisaku Ikeda

“I love Karrueche very much but I don't want to see her hurt over my friendship with Rihanna, i'd rather be single allowing us to both be happy in our lives.”

Want Love Friendship Hurt Our Lives Love Life Allowing My Friendship

Author:Chris Brown

“We can carry the burden of hurt throughout our lives. We can make the hurt that we have experienced the defining aspect of our stories of ourselves. That means that somebody else gets to say who we are, somebody else gets to decide how we feel, and somebody else gets to decide how we see the world. Forgiveness not only frees us from the burden of someone else's opinion of us, but it allows us the opportunity to really write a story of ourselves that we can love, enjoy, relish, and live into.”

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Author:Desmond Tutu

“I believe there is only one truly courageous thing we can do with our lives: to love unconditionally. Absolutely, with all of ourselves, so much that it hurts and then more.”

Believe I Believe Can Do Hurt Our Lives Courageous It Hurts Love Unconditionally

Book:Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.”