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• Keep in mind that the tendency to be judgmental - toward yourself or another person - is a good barometer of how…
• It is an act of courage to acknowledge our own uncertainty and sit with it for a while.
• Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet
• It is not fear that stops you from doing the brave and true thing in your daily life. Rather, the problem is…
• Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get…
• We commonly confuse closeness with sameness and view intimacy as the merging of two separate I's into one worldview.
• Underground issues from one relationship or context invariably fuel our fires in another.
• We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the…
• An intimate relationship is one in which neither party silences, sacrifices, or betrays the self and each party expresses strength and vulnerability,…
• If we only listened with the same passion that we feel about being heard.
• Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of…
• We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't…

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