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• 'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.
• I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
• You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your…
• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.
• Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life - it gave me me. It provided the time and…
• You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or…
• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
• In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.
• Charles had once remarked that holding onto a resentment was like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die.
• To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself for now. And now…
• ...after a few days at the desk, telling the truth in an interesting way turns out to be as easy and pleasurable…
• 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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