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“The birds are literal representations of the witnesses of those ordinary and big moments, but they are also metaphors for time itself, for the passing of time. It occurred to me, many years after I had been here, thinking about this idea, that every moment we have with one another is really our only moment, and because of that our every moment could potentially be a goodbye, so we have to notice and notice and notice.”

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Book:Everything You Say Is Goodbye
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“When will your sun come - to make everything reborn? -The burn of your fingers pressed against my being- I would like to fall asleep in your body again And make of your smiles an open source When my life is like a desolate desert I would like to fall asleep by the light sand of your skin. Your voice - your voice alone knows how to put an end to my anger As your lips faint on the pains of my yesterday When will you come to drape me in your radiant sun? So that I find life in its first taste (-The glow of your hair is a roof of moonlight.)”

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Author:Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne
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“Dialogues must appear as natural as if coming from effortless writing. It must not sweat. Your beloved readers must not sweat. But here am I, literally sweating, because my characters are literally talking dirty in a steamy sweaty and bloody scene.”

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Book:How to Make a Book
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“It wasn't that I gave up on her healing, but, as she continued to struggle to get in the door and actively needed her self-hatred to stay functional, I began to realize more deeply that her patterns had meaning and that it wasn't useful for me to predetermine what recovery might look like for her.”

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Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn't the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for nonjudgemental, agendaless presence with another. Being kind to ourselves can be helpful as we seek to practice this way of being, because it places us at cross-purposes with our culture, where performance and improvement are so valued and the limits and variability of our humanness are cause for criticism and correction. Many aspects of our training as well as our everyday experience in this society urge us to take control to achieve a particular result, and this can become so implicitly ingrained that it feels wrong to sink toward our innate humanity. Again, just listening with kindness to the competing voices inside is good preparation for extending this attentiveness and kindness to all aspects of the person about to come in our door.”

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Book:The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships
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“Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where it is. We have maps of its presence within and around galaxies throughout the universe. We even have stringent constraints on what it is not, but we have no clue what it is. And yes, its presence is overwhelming: for every one kilogram of ordinary matter made out of neutrons and protons and electrons, there are five kilograms of dark matter, made out of who-knows-what.”

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Book:The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time, and Beyond
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“∞ The Convergence of the Universe through Love A Poem by Alexander Martini I believe the universe does not retreat. It draws together. Not into narrowness, but into unity. Not by gravitation, but by grace. The energy of love is not linear. It is exponential — or perhaps we need a new word: expansial. A force that expands and deepens at once. Not only faster. But truer. For when lovers love, they do not only amplify themselves. They amplify the Whole. They are like resonant chambers that make the invisible audible.”

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Author:Alexander Martini
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“The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!”

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Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
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“If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents." That is good advice. The relationship with your parents is not only the premordial relationship that sets the tone for all subsequent relationships, it is also a good test for your degree of Presence. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise you will be forced to relive the past again and again.”

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Book:A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
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“Are you in seach of security? Do you desire to be secure in your relationships, in your career, in your money matters, or any other aspect of your life? Then you are in search of the impossible. Change and insecurity is the very soul of life. Every thing that is alive changes ALL the time. Change means insecurity. Change means moving from the known to the unknown. And the base of all insecurity is the need to cling to the known. The outer world is always changing. That which is unchangeable, untouchable, is within you. It never changes no matter what happens in the outer world. So if you are looking for a place to stand, to be secure, to be safe, what you are looking for is already within you. Stand firm within the Untouchable presence of your own Being.”

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Book:YOU ARE THE CREATOR: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Self Mastery and Healing
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“Enlightenment is not for the one who wants to experience continuous states of bliss and comfortability in order to feel liberated….. Enlightenment is for the one who is willing to have their view of life and sense of self be turned upside down and is not afraid to be consumed by the truth.”

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Book:YOU ARE THE CREATOR: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Self Mastery and Healing
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“You are Infinite and Limitless….So when you believe that definition or label you've put on yourself, you are in fact limiting yourself to Nothing but a miniscule Thought. I'm asking you to Empty yourself of all identification; Question every Thought….Because As a Divine Being; you were Never meant to be Contained.”

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Book:YOU ARE THE CREATOR: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Awakening, Self Mastery and Healing
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“Rising thermals gyre silently over sun-soaked fields. I watch them strike the frigid currents arcing down from the north. Splashes of ice crystals mark each impact point. These intermingle and shred, then regroup again until the grow smooth and white and pliant like kneaded dough. My mind soars up through the lace of nascent clouds, past deeper shoals of stratus, accelerating steadily as the molecules spread apart, until it reaches the deepest pools of sky, the place where mares' tails flick and trail.”

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Author:Ann Batterson
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