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What we are not changing, we are choosing.
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Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.
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Good Memories
Grieving
Memories
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Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
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Change
Smile
Humility
Mean
Reality
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We do not live on the Earth, we are a part of how the Earth lives.
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Earth
Earth Life
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Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
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Relationship
Beautiful
Get Well
Inspirational Life
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The human heart holds much more love than it can ever disburse in one lifetime.
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Heart
Human Heart
Lifetime
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The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.
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Challenges
Destiny
Our Destiny
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Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
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Creatures
Endearing
Tears
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We were born with four words engraved on our bodies and in our hearts: Love me, hold me.
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Body
Four
Heart
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Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
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Meditation
Practice
Spiritual
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To be adult in relationship is not to be conflict-free, it's to resolve conflicts mindfully.
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Adults
Conflict
Resolve
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Most people think of love as a feeling, but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.
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Love Is
People
Thinking
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True optimism is not the prospect of control over pain or elimination of it but survival through it.
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Optimism
Pain
Survival
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The foundation of adult trust is not “You will never hurt me.” It is “I trust myself with whatever you do.
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Adults
Foundation
Hurt
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It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.
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Effort
Perfect
Practice
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Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
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Bread
Effort
Sitting
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We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.
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Believe
Past
Thinking
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Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.
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Causes
Coincidence
Synchronicity
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We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.
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Coincidence In Life
Destiny
Work Out
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I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.
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Law
Mankind
Stills
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When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.
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Ability
Damage
Trustworthiness
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Spirituality is the intersection of three paths: letting go of ego, an unconditional yes to the conditions of human existence, and an immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion
Ego
Letting Go
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A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.
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Grieving
Healing
Self
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Once we understand that what happens beyond our control may be just what we need, we see that acceptance of reality can be our way of participating in our own evolution.
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Acceptance
Needs
Reality
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Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.
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Glowing
People
Two
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When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?
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Fear
Connections
Identity
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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.
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Grief
Letting Go
Mean
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A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one.
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Journey
Discipline
Perfect
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Love is the possibility of possibilities. Its farthest reach is beyond us, no matter how long we love or how much. It will always remain the mute mystery to whose ecstasy and ache we can only surrender with a yes.
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Love
Long
Matter
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The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans.
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Believe
Despair
Opposites
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The Five A’s (attention, appreciation, acceptance, affection, allowing) are simultaneously the fulfillment of our earliest needs, the requirements of adult intimacy and of universal compassion, and the essential qualities of mindfulness practice.
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Appreciation
Smile
Acceptance
Compassion
Practice
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There is a natural and inviolable tendency in things to bloom into whatever they truly are in the core of their being. All we have to do is align ourselves with what wants to happen naturally and put in the effort that is our part in helping it happen.
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Effort
Helping
Want
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In mindful grief, we become the landing strip that allows any feelings to arrive. Some crash, some land softly. Some harm us, but none harm us in a lasting way. We remain as they taxi away or as their wreckage is cleared away. We can trust that we will survive.
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Grief
Grieving
Land
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Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.
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Choices
Issues
People
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Early fear was felt cellularly and was indeed real. Defensive postures were necessary, but defenses generalize cellularly in adulthood and do not expire. It takes conscious work to undo them. Ironically, as long as we keep using defenses, we actually maintain the original force of the fear.
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Fear
Long
Real
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We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.
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Character
Hero
Loss
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Fate often allows a future to take shape with no regard for our expectation, plan, or readiness. Fate's skillful editing of our life choices is like the careful grooming of lads on their first day of school: combed, polished, scrubbed, newly dressed, and glowing too. This is how we become ready for our life lessons.
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Fate
Life Lesson
School
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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.
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Hero
Loss
Mean
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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.
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Healthy
Mean
Psychology
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Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing.
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Appreciation
Smile
Acceptance
Atmosphere
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Mindfulness is an ancient meditation mode in which we let go of our fears, our attachments to control and being right, our expectations and entitlements, and our judgments of others. Instead of these popular strategies, we learn to simply stay present opening in the moment - with nothing in the way - so we can experience life as it occurs.
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Attachment
Expectations
Letting Go
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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.
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Believe
Hurt
Mean
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At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our needs who can foster our inner resources of personal power, lovability, and serenity. Those who love us understand us and are available to us with an attention, appreciation, acceptance, and affection we can feel. They make room for us to be who we are.
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Appreciation
Smile
Acceptance
People
Self
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.
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Mindfulness
Tree
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Just as our fingerprints are one-of-a-kind, so is our identity. Each of us is a once-only articulation of what humans can be. We are rare, unmatched, mysterious. This is why the quality of openness is so crucial to our self-discovery. We cannot know ourselves by who we think we are, who others take us to be, or what our driver's license may say. We are fields of potential, some now actualized, most not yet.
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Discovery
Self
Thinking
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The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.
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Ideas
Reality
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Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.
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Acceptance
Giving Up
Self Esteem
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