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Romancing The Soul
No amount of personal growth retreats, yoga, meditation, or plant medicine ceremonies will prepare you for spiritual growth you get through being in a romantic relationship and being exposed to all your childhood wounds and unhealthy patterns.
— Jan Darwin Hutchins.
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… In our ordinary condition, when a thought arises, we have no idea how to deal with it. We let that thought grow and become stronger. This could eventually lead us to seize a weapon and go to war. It all began with a thought, nothing more. Look at the succession of thoughts that lead to full-blown hatred: The past thoughts are dead and gone. The present thoughts will soon vanish. There is nothing graspable in either of them. So, if we examine the thoughts in depth, we cannot find anything truly existing in them. Under scrutiny, they vanish like a big heap of grass set ablaze. Nothing will be left of it.
~Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‘yours,’ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.
— Eckhart Tolle
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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
