“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” -Eckhart Tolle
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Never let your fears redefine your faith.
“How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others… But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.”
― M. Scott Peck
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for the practice. – William James
When you do the things you have to do when you have to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them. -Zig Ziglar
“It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.” – Pema Chodron, The Places that Scare You
God will only fill empty hands.
“The problem isn’t with the beliefs themselves but with how we use them to get ground under our feet, how we use them to feel right and to make someone else feel wrong, how we use them to avoid feeling the uneasiness of not knowing what’s going on.” -Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You
“Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears, but from getting to know them well.” – Pema Chodron, The Places That Scare You
A Tragedy of Life
“The tragedy of experiencing ourselves as apart from everyone else is that this delusion becomes a prison.” -Albert Einstein