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The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive. One
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It may sound strange to laymen, but psychotherapists are familiar with the fact that people are routinely terrified by mental health.
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To nourish the spirit the body must also be nourished.
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We are almost always less or more competent than we believe ourselves to be. The unconscious,however, knows who we really are.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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Going into the unknown is invariably frightening, but we learn what is significantly new only through adventures.
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I guess if you want to know one single thing I'm about, it's that I'm against easy answers.
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The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.
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When you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself in all ways that are necessary.
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Our choices lie between the lesser of two evils, but it is still within our power to make these choices
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You are a beautiful and beloved individual. It is good to be you. We will love you no matter what you do, as long as you are you.
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Commitment is inherent in any genuinely loving relationship.
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Most people want peace without the aloneness of [spiritual] power. And they want the self-confidence of adulthood without having to grow up.
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If an act is not one of work or courage, then it is not an act of love. There are no exceptions.
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...truth is reality
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Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.
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If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.
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To heal your body, you must first heal your spirit.
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I believe it would be considerably healthier for us to dare to live without a reason for many things than with reasons that are simplistic.
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Benjamin Franklin said, "Those things that hurt, instruct.
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The fact of the matter is that our unconscious is wiser than we are about everything.
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Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.
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Even when we truly understand these matters, the journey of spiritual growth is still so lonely and difficult that we often become discouraged.
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Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.
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Love is too large, too deep ever to be truly understood or measured or limited within the framework of words.
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Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
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Ultimately love is everything.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.
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Love always requires courage and involves risk.
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Many addictions can be far more dangerous than addiction to drugs. The addiction to power ...
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We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and the most enlightened when we are the most confused.
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But the fact of the matter is that everyone has an explicit or implicit set of ideas and beliefs as to the essential nature of the world.
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It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
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If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and
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It is our task-our essential, central, crucial task-to transform ourselves from mere social creatures into community creatures.
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Self-discipline is self-caring.
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With total discipline we can solve all problems.
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Mental Health is dedication to reality at all costs.
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The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.
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True listening involves bracketing, a setting aside of the self.
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And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.
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the healthy self, however, must always be vigilant against the laziness of the sick self that still lurks within us.
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I've had all kinds of experiences with God in terms of revelation through a still, small voice or dreams or coincidences.
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If I truly love another, I will obviously order my behavior in such a way as to contribute the utmost to his or her spiritual growth.
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But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.
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The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.
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Examination of the world without is never as personally painful as examination of the world within.
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We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.
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The neurotic assumes too much responsibility; the person with a character disorder not enough.
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When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.
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You must have something in order to give it up.
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Move out or grow in any dimension and pain as well as joy will be your reward. A full life will be full of pain.
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My time was my responsibility. It was up to me and me alone to decide how I wanted to use and order my time.
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Teach us to number our days aright.
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Balancing is a discipline precisely because the act of giving something up is painful.
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The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
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And I know that I and anyone else who is not mentally defective can solve any problem if we are willing to take the time.
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In and through community lies the salvation of the world.
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no problem can be solved until an individual assumes the responsibility for solving it.
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There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.
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Those things that hurt, instruct.
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Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.
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He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
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If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.
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A life of Wisdom must be a life of contemplation and action
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I thank them for the same service.
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There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
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God wants us to become himself or herself or itself. We are growing toward Godhood. God is the goal of evolution.
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The healing of the spirit has not been completed until openness to challenge becomes a way of life.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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Yet even more important than role modeling is love.
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Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.
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Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost.
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The idea that God is actively nurturing us so that we might grow up to be like Him brings us face to face with our own laziness.
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A life of total dedication to the truth also means a life of willingness to be personally challenged.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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