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Taking the time to heal ourselves is not selfish, it’s necessary.
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When we have no enemy within, we are united within ourselves. This unity is the foundation of mental strength.
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Don’t take yourself too seriously. Your heart is not meant to be filled with sorrow, but joy.
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Where there is pain there is also love. Pain means that love is not flowing as it should. Don’t avoid your pain because as Rumi said “The wound is where the light enters you”.
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Where there is pain, there’s also love. Pain means love is not flowing as it should. In the case of grief, the belief that love is gone is what’s blocking it. Part of the healing process is not to deny the pain but change its purpose to remind that love is not gone, just blocked.
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The purpose of grief in our lives is to help us remember that love can never leave us because it’s in our hearts and will always be there.
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Don’t avoid your pain, let it speak to you of the love it hides.
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Let your grief lead you home to the love it hides.
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Pain can be a friend because it tells us we are believing something about ourselves that’s not true. If we let it speak to us, we can have a chance to correct and move on.
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When it comes to solving the problems of the mind, there’s not one way that will work for everyone. If we find a way that works (spirituality, religion, psychotherapy…) we should follow it as faithfully as we can.
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Not everything that’s worthwhile is quick or easy. Healing the mind from sorrow, fear or anything else can take a long time. Being patient with ourselves, which is a way of being kind, is helpful and necessary.
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Patience is about acknowledging our resistance to change, which arises from fear. It’s about allowing our resistance to be there without saying that it’s wrong or that it shouldn’t happen.
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When it comes to healing our minds, there is no deadline or pressure. Patience is key. This means the focus is not on how long the process will take, it’s on allowing the process to take place by not placing any limits on how long it should take.
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Healing our minds is the best gift we can offer each other because when we relate from a place of healing, we can cultivate the ability to affect each other positively.
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Healing our pain will allow us to relate with others without reinforcing their pain. Even if we do nothing else, it’s a lot already.
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When we begin to see that the way we feel about others has nothing to do with them, the healing process can begin.
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Take good care of yourself because you matter. Your worth isn’t dependent on anyone’s opinion.
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When our minds are free of inner burdens, we will mirror to others nothing but themselves.
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When the mind is flexible and free of inner burdens, it remains young even when the body ages.
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The problem is not what people think or say about us, the problem is what we believe it means.
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The best way to keep things we don’t want out of our lives is by not creating the conditions that can allow them to take roots.
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Saying “No” to people without antagonism, or without attacking their positions, is not conflict. It’s honest disagreement and that’s healthy.
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Be grateful for all the people in your life because each one mirrors to you your mind. The way we relate to others is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves.
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Whatever life triggers out of us was already inside us. Now that it has come up, we have a chance to heal it. That’s the gift of difficult relationships.
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The great service that any kind of art (books, music, movies, dance, and so on) renders us is to provide a screen upon which to project our beliefs. In this way, art mirrors ourselves back to us.
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The past can be helpful as long as we don’t allow it to keep us from the present because life is never in the past, it’s always now.
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The past can show us patterns we want to avoid. In that regard, it’s helpful as long as we don’t let it keep us from living because life is never in the past or future, it’s always now. Be fully present.
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Never succumb to the bitterness of regret. Allow the present to offer you the gift of a new beginning by not giving any power to the past to affect you now.
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The past is not a waste or failure if we learn from it now. It’s always possible to begin again if we don’t give the past power over the present. Life is not meant to be filled with sorrows from the past, but with the joy of new beginnings. That’s why the present is a gift.
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If we allow the mind to die to the past, this emptiness enables the mind to begin anew in the present. This is a renewal process that keeps the mind young and flexible.
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When people hurt our feelings, the problem is not what they said, the problem is that we believe them.
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When I let go of my attachments to the past, I die to it, because even though the memory might remain, it has no power to impact me now.
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It’s better to learn how to solve challenges immediately in the present; otherwise, they become burdens for the mind. Forgiveness is one of the tools that helps with this.
Whenever we take the time to improve or heal ourselves, everyone in our lives will benefit because we will relate to them from a positive state of mind. Relationships are very important in life because they are the classrooms in which we learn about ourselves and others.
Just because we can’t help everyone perfectly, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t help whoever we can, however way we can and whenever we can. This includes taking care of ourselves. Don’t allow criticism from yourself or others to prevent you from moving forward, no matter how slow or imperfect your progress may seem to you.
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