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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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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…
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Treat my first like my last and the last like my first and my thirst is the same as- when I came.
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I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of…
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He never hurries. He never shows his cards. He always hangs up first....Like when we first started talking on the phone, he…
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He had no one but himself to blame, for he’d opened himself up to it. Just a fraction at first, like a…
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I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy.
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