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“Parents and adults in our society found a way to preserve their own self-concept, and that was through feeding themselves, as well as you, with the belief “It’s for your own good.” We are fed this lie from day one. Even those of us who grow up in the most loving households are fed this lie. We make our children sit through hours of lessons in the prison-like environment we call school and tell them it’s for their own good. We discipline them in ways that are painful to their minds and bodies and tell them that it’s for their own good.”
― Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times
― Shadows Before Dawn: Finding the Light of Self-Love through Your Darkest Times
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“All too often, people take no action until the fear goes away. But life cannot be lived like that. It cannot be lived like that anymore than it can be lived in spite of fear.”
― The Anatomy of Loneliness: How to Find Your Way Back to Connection
― The Anatomy of Loneliness: How to Find Your Way Back to Connection
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“If you remove yourself far enough from the limited point of view of pain, you will see that at the root of all things that are negative in this world is the physical fact that we are all nothing but the victims of victims.”
― The Sculptor in the Sky
― The Sculptor in the Sky
“If you look at the Earth from another part of the universe, we are celestial beings. It is just a question of perspective.”
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“Observing and then letting go is one of the most important skills to acquire in the quest to create positive change, as is knowledge of stillness.”
― The Sculptor in the Sky
― The Sculptor in the Sky
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