David Richo Quotes

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• Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Evoke one good memory for each bad one from now on.
• 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…
• We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.
• Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
• 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…
• 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…
• Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Synchronicity is a term used by Carl Jung to describe coincidences that are related by meaningfulness rather than by cause and effect.
• 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…
• The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.
• 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…
• It is not that practice makes perfect but that practice is perfect, combining effort with an openness to grace.
• 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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