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'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
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I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
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You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your…
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Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
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Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…
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You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or…
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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
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In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
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Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
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To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now…
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...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable…
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They believe that if they do get published, a wonderful new life is in store. It will turn out that deep down…
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If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical…
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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live:…
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But maybe the Charm Bracelets understood more about life than I did. From an early age they knew what little value the…
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She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns,…
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