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When a person stops spending their days being their own torturer, it leaves a lot more time for happiness.
Caren Albers • Happiness Junkie: A 12 Step Program to Find Inner Peace and Change Your Life
When we’re mainly filtering our experience through the ego, constantly trying to improve or maintain our high self-esteem, we’re denying ourselves the thing we actually want most. To be accepted as we are, an integral part of something much greater than our small selves. Unbounded. Immeasurable. Free.
Kristin Neff • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
You have less control of your life than you think.
As humans, we love stability and control. We enjoy predictability and fear the unknown.
You don’t like the fact that at any moment, you could get hit by a bus, or lose something precious to you.
You don’t like it. But it’s reality!
In reality, we don’t control most external things that happen to us.
We
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