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Burden Quote by William James

“The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity,…” quote by William James
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“The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.”

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