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Let go of people who are not ready to love you. This is the hardest thing you will have to do in your life and it will also be the most important thing. Stop having difficult conversations with people who don't want to change. Stop showing up to people who have no interest in your presence. I know your instinct is to do whatever you can to gain the appreciation of those around you, but it is an urge that robs your time, energy, mental and physical health.
When you start fighting for a life with joy, interest and commitment, not everyone will be ready to follow you to that place. That does not mean that you have to change who you are, it means that you should let go of people who are not ready to accompany you.
If you are excluded, insulted, forgotten or ignored by the people you give your time to, you are not doing yourself a favor by continuing to offer them your energy and your life. The truth is that you are not for everyone and not everyone is for you.
This is what makes it so special when you meet people with whom you have mutual friendship or love. You will know how precious it is because you have experienced what it is not.
The more time you spend trying to make yourself loved by someone who is not capable, the more time you waste depriving yourself of the possibility of that connection with someone else.
There are billions of people on this planet and many of them are going to meet you, at your level of interest and commitment.
The more you remain involved with people who use you as a cushion, a background option, or a therapist for their emotional healing, the longer you withdraw from the community you desire.
Maybe if you stop showing up, they won't look for you. Maybe if you stop trying, the relationship will end. Maybe if you stop texting, your phone will stay dark for weeks.
That does not mean that you ruined the relationship, it means that the only thing that sustained it was the energy that only you gave to maintain it. That is not love, it is attachment. It is wanting to give a chance to those who do not deserve it! You deserve a lot, there are people who should not be in your life, you will realize.
The most valuable thing you have in your life is your time and energy, as both are limited. What you give your time and energy to will define your existence.
When you realize this you begin to understand why you are so anxious when you spend time with people, in activities, places or situations that do not suit you and should not be near you, they rob you of energy.
You will begin to realize that the most important thing you can do for yourself and everyone around you is to protect your energy more fiercely than anything else.
Make your life a safe haven, where only people “compatible” with you are allowed.
You are not responsible for saving anyone. You are not responsible for convincing them to improve. It is not your job to exist for people and give them your life!
Because if you feel bad, if you feel obligated, you will be the root of all your problems because of your insistence, fearing that they will not return the favors you have granted. It is your only obligation to realize that you are the master of your destiny and accept the love you think you deserve. Decide that you deserve a real friendship, a true commitment and a complete love with healthy and prosperous people. Then wait and see how much everything begins to change and it will change that is for sure with positive people with good energy, do not waste time with people who are not worth it, the change will give you love, esteem, happiness and protection that you deserve. - Anthony Hopkin

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“The anti-judgment mantra is yet another way that Patriarchal Spirituality and the New Cage movement sidestep personal responsibility for their actions. Don’t judge! Yet in truth, we are judging all the time. We were granted the gift of discernment and critical thinking. Thank God for that—it keeps us from walking down the wrong paths, making unhealthy decisions, destroying our lives. Even those who criticize judgment are judging. It’s fundamental to the human experience. Perhaps the real question is not IF we are judging (or discerning, if you prefer), but WHY we are judging? Is it benevolently or malevolently intended? Are we judging in a forward-moving effort to distinguish unhealthy from healthy, or are we judging as a reflection of an unresolved superiority complex? Are we judging because we have a need to call out the madness of the world, or as a direct reflection of it? Where are we coming FROM? Because not every ‘judgment’ is a conditioned perspective. Often, it is a reflection of hard-earned wisdom and a grounded sensibility.” - Jeff Brown, from ‘Grounded Spirituality’

“Whatever’s happening is simply what’s happening. It’s not right, it’s not wrong, it’s not good, it’s not bad. All those are value judgments that we place on it, and then we pretend that our value judgment is what’s true. But our value judgment is just a value judgment, and all of our value judgments are conditioned.” - Adyashanti

Stop shrinking yourself to fit places you've outgorwn. - unknown

Don't speak bad of yourself. For the warrior within hears your words and is lessened by them. - Old Japaneses Samurai Proverb

Some of the best advice I've been given: Don't take criticism from people you would never go to for advice. - unknown

Don't base your decisions on the advice of those who won't have to deal with the results. - Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

Your decisions have consequences. Be careful with advices. - paulo Coelho
Stop chasing after people & being the only one trying to fix everything. It's meantally and physically exhausting. You have to find peace with whoever comes and goes from your life. Don't be the only one putting in effort because you will lose yourself trying to save someone else. - Navae L.

Don't let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. - Steve Jobs

Your opinion is not my reality. - Dr. Steve Maraboli

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'All you need is love' - William Shakespeare

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What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor Frankl

I look back with forgiveness, both for myself and others.
I look to the present with appreciation, for those who are in my life as well as those who are not.
I look to the future with faith and optimism that things which never made sense someday will, and that great things are yet to happen. - Zoe Zantamata

If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If borken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside. - unknown

The most beautiful things in life are not things. They're people and places, memories and pictures. They're feelings and moments and smiles and laughter. - unknown

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Allow things to unfold and you will find your purpose in life | Peggy Oki | TEDxQueenstown

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Stop seeking a lover. You are the lover. The profound truth is that love is within you because the lover you seek is within you too. The lover within is where you should give your love first. - Rashi

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality | Anil Seth

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To my love

“Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember ... you are the medicine.” - María Sabina, Mexican healer and poet

Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will. - unknown

The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response.
Your “I don’t need anyone, I’ll just do it all myself” conditioning is a survival tactic. And you needed it to shield your heart from abuse, neglect, betrayal, and disappointment from those who could not or would not be there for you.
From the parent who was absent and abandoned you by choice or the parent who was never home from working three jobs to feed and house you.
From the lovers who offered sexual intimacy but never offered a safe haven that honored your heart.
From the friendships and family who ALWAYS took more than they ever gave.
From all the situations when someone told you “we’re in this together” or “I got you” then abandoned you, leaving you to pick up the pieces when shit got real, leaving you to handle your part and their part, too.
From all the lies and all the betrayals.
You learned along the way that you just couldn’t really trust people. Or that you could trust people, but only up to a certain point.
Extreme-independence IS. A. TRUST. ISSUE.
You learnt: if I don’t put myself in a situation where I rely on someone, I won’t have to be disappointed when they don’t show up for me, or when they drop the ball... because they will ALWAYS drop the ball EVENTUALLY right?
You may even have been intentionally taught this protection strategy by generations of hurt ancestors who came before you.
Extreme-independence is a preemptive strike against heartbreak.
So, you don’t trust anyone.
And you don’t trust yourself, either, to choose people.
To trust is to hope, to trust is to be vulnerable.
“Never again,” you vow.
But no matter how you dress it up and display it proudly to make it seem like this level of independence is what you always wanted to be, in truth it’s your wounded, scarred, broken heart behind a protective brick wall.
Impenetrable. Nothing gets in. No hurt gets in. But no love gets in either.
Fortresses and armor are for those in battle, or who believe the battle is coming.
It’s a trauma response.
The good news is trauma that is acknowledged is trauma that can be healed.
You are worthy of having support.
You are worthy of having true partnership.
You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of having your heart held.
You are worthy to be adored.
You are worthy to be cherished.
You are worthy to have someone say, “You rest. I got this.” And actually deliver on that promise.
You are worthy to receive.
You are worthy to receive.
You are worthy.
You don’t have to earn it.
You don’t have to prove it.
You don’t have to bargain for it.
You don’t have to beg for it.
You are worthy.
WORTHY.
Simply because you exist.-Jamila White

“Humans evolved as beings whose needs to touch and be touched, to converse, debate, and laugh together, to smile and flirt with one another, and to interact in groups, are central to healthy lives.” - Agustín Fuentes

Positive people are not positive because they've skated throught life. They're positive because they've been through hell and decided they don't want to live there anymore. - Mona Lisa Nyman

The moments we remember the most are the ones that we hold closest to our hearts - unknown

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. - Margaret Cousins

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Do you even think about how crazy it is that your paths crossed with someone? Like the sequence of events that had to occur for you to meet them and be involved in one another's life, absolutely wild. - unknown

We rise by lifting others. - unknown

"Enlightenment Is when a wave realizes it is the ocean "Thich Nhat Hanh

Maybe life isn't about being happy all the time, maybe it's about being real. - Mark Groves

Get real about that one thing that you're afraid to be real about. Someone else out there is going through the same thing, just waiting for someone else to be brave. - unknown

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you in my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had. And lift you like a prayer Healing is the willingness to start over from scratch and build yourself with love. Until you let go of the fear programming, you cannot fully heal.to the sky. - Rumi

Healing is the willingness to start over from scratch and build yourself with love. Until you let go of the fear programming, you cannot fully heal. - unknown

When we look out at others, we cast our own memory and experiences on them as we judge them. We hardly ever just sit back and love others, as is...without our filters. It is time to be aware that most of our judgments are not coming from the moment of now...they are regurgitated up from our past...which will always muddle our judgment. Be kind. Be loving. Just be...and love others with a clear open heart. Everyone must play victim to their own past...so it is so important that you stay alert to your own stuff as you place judgments upon the World. - Teri White

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them, or just your thoughts about them. - Jon Kabat Zinn

Pretty Deplorable!

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生命的三種狀態
初級的快樂是肉體的快樂，那是飽、暖、物、欲。
中級的快樂是精神的快樂，那是詩詞歌賦、琴棋書畫、遊走天下。
高級的快樂是靈魂的快樂，那是付出、奉獻，讓他人因為你的存在而快樂！
平庸的人只有一條命，叫性命；
優秀的人有兩條命，即性命和生命；
卓越的人則有三條命，性命、生命和使命。它們分別代表著生存、生活和責任！- Anna C.


The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - Pablo Picasso

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The only thing that matters is how much you love. In the end it doesn't matter what your body looks like, how successful your career is, how big your hosue is, ow advanced your yoga practice is, or what your bank statement says. Let me repeat this, The only thing that matters is how much you love. Your purpose on this earth is to love. And love is a two way street. We give, we get. With love we will turn this crazy world around. - unknown

“Responsive to change”

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin

The best thing about life is that everything I've ever lost, has been replaced with something better. I never lack, I just transition. - unknown

Something healing has nothing to do with the people who've hurt you. Sometimes healing is apologizing to yourelf for all the bullshit you made yourself believe. - r.m. drake

If you cannot find a good companion to walk with, walk alone, like an elephant roaming the jungle. it is better to be alone than to be wiht those who will hinder your progress. - Buddha

"Your life is always one with now." - Eckhart Tolle

We tend to wait for people far longer than they would ever wait for us. The right ones will never let you feel like you are waiting for anything except the next adventure. - C. Churchill

Be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. - Maya Angelou

Make a conscious effort to enjoy the little things in life today. There is so much to be grateful for each & everyday and the happiest of us know that to be fact. What are you grateful< for? - unknown

I think 99 times and I find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me. - Albert Einstein

Do you ever think about how crazy it is that your paths crossed with someone? Like the sequence of events that had to occur for you to meet them and be involved in one another's lifek, absolutely wild. - unknown

You ask me what I am waiting for ? I'm waiting for someone who keeps it real. For someone who doesn't make a fool out of me and plays with my heart, for someone grown. I don't have time for people who don't fuel my soul. For poeple who don't bring the light. I'm sorry. I'm just waiting for someone who'll treat me like a fucking human being and not take what I have to offere for granted. That's all. - r.m. drake

I call it evolving
into a better self
learning how to eliminate the past
while climbing out of its Hell
who you were
does not matter now
staying stuck in slow motion
can turn your heart so sour
feel yourself grow
feel yourself prosper
teach yourself how to control
each and every disaster
stay away from the negative minds
those who refuse to dream
refuse to embrace their screams
those who refuse
to just beautifully be
you can love yourself
while hurting
you can love yourself
while burning
open wounds
heal as they bleed
you have to keep
an open mind
through everything
blaming everyone else
for your own mistakes
will only lead to more of them
learn your way
learn your path
learn your own passions
learn what makes your soul laugh
what makes it cry
learn the signs
that you must avoid
to keep your mind right
if you’re not comfortable in a crowd
don’t join one
if the noises are too loud
silence the sounds
you can choose
which doors are yours
the ones that aren’t
just leave them on the shores
in madness
we all have our own special place
in insanity
we all have our own
steps we must take
if the steps aren’t real
don’t take them
if it isn’t your place
don’t embrace them
find the keys
to your own masterpiece
paint them vividly
paint them in peace
your peace of mind is special
never let anything waste you
one shot at life
one shot at dreams
one way to yourself
sing it in your own
euphoric haunting screams
what they say is irrelevant
what you need
is in your eyes
you’re holding the wheel
never let anyone else drive.
Your heart must be so heavy
carrying around all those
hidden feelings
and unspoken words
I know because I do it too...- Jeff Oliver & Kristin Kory

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Look at you! healing those traumas, addressing those bad habits, holding yourself accountable, no longer seeking validation from others, and finally speaking your personal truth. Seriously, I applaud you! Growth gets messy, ugly, and painful, yet here you are growing. We see you! - Divine Nexus

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If you are easily provoked, you are easily controlled, restraint is a superpower. - unknown

People will push you to your limits and when you finally explode and fight back, suddenly you're the mean one. - unknown

I can tell who my safe people are because I don't hold my breath when I'm around them. I'm free to show up with all my feelings. - Anne Carly

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It doesn't change when we stare at it from across the room. It doesn't change when we sit in prayer and wish it away. It doesn't change when we skirt the edges of the shadown. It doesn't change when we pretend it's all Go(o)d. it chagnes whne we cross the sacred battleground willing to die to our truth. It changes when we look the lie in the eye until it has nowhere left to hide. It changes when we pick up the sword of truth and cut the falsity until it bleeds right through. The era of the sacred activist is upon us. Not the warrior run amok, but the benevolent warrior who fights for our right to the light. Some battles are worth fighting. - Jeff Brown

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Love is your gateway to freedom. -Jack Kornfield

Our time is too precious not to love. - Jack Kornfield

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“The best strategy for ensuring safety and prosperity is to buttress American military strength with enhanced civilian tools and a restored network of solid alliances—both necessary to achieving defense in depth. The pandemic should serve as a reminder of what grief ensues when we wait for problems to come to us.” - Kori Schake, Jim Mattis, Jim Ellis, and Joe Felter

Gratitude

Here's a meditation to open our hearts to #gratitude and joy this holiday season.
Let yourself sit quietly and at ease. Allow your body to be relaxed and open, your breath natural, your heart easy. Begin the practice of gratitude by feeling how year after year you have cared for your own life. Now let yourself begin to acknowledge all that has supported you in this care:
With gratitude I remember the people, animals, plants, insects, creatures of the sky and sea, air and water, fire and earth, all whose joyful exertion blesses my life every day.
With gratitude I remember the care and labor of a thousand generations of elders and ancestors who came before me.
I offer my gratitude for the blessing of this earth I have been given.
I offer my gratitude for the measure of health I have been given.

I offer my gratitude for the family and friends I have been given. I offer my gratitude for the community I have been given.
I offer my gratitude for the teachings and lessons I have been given.
I offer my gratitude for the life I have been given.
by Jack Kornfield

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Each day I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality and likes that turned into love. - unknown

Piglet noticed that even though he had a very small heart, it could hold a rather large amount of gratitude. - A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

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Connection parenting is parenting through connection instead of coercion, through love instead of fear."
The model of parenting most of us grew up with was authoritarian parenting, which is based on fear. Some of us may have grown up with permissive parenting, which is also based on fear. Authoritarian parenting is based on the child's fear of losing the parent's love. Permissive parenting is based on the parent's fear of losing the child's love. Connection parenting is based on love instead of fear.
Connection Parenting recognizes that securing and maintaining a healthy parent-child bond is our primary work as parents and the key to our children's optimal human development. Our effectiveness as parents is in direct proportion to the strength of the bond we have with our child. Connection Parenting promotes parenting practices that support a strong, healthy parent-child bond.
Both authoritarian parenting and permissive parenting are reactive. Connection parenting is proactive. Rather than focusing on ways to discipline children when their feelings of disconnection result in uncooperative or unacceptable behavior, Connection Parenting focuses on ways to maintain and increase the parent-child bond/connection.
Connection parenting is an ideal, a navigation star we can look to for guidance. Whenever we question how to respond to a child we can ask ourselves, will this response create a connection or a disconnection. We feel connected when we feel listened to and loved. We feel disconnected when we feel hurt and unheard.
Sometimes a child's behavior will push our buttons and we react rather than respond. As soon as we realize we have created a disconnect, we can reconnect by doing the following:
Rewind - Acknowledge we have said or done something hurtful
Repair - Apologize and ask for forgiveness
Replay - Respond with love and listening
Even if we can't parent in the most nurturing ways all the time, the more often we can, the more our children get what they need, the better they will be able to weather the times when we parent in less nurturing ways. - Pamela Leo

Authoritarian parenting is based on the child's fear o flosing the parent's love. Permissive parenting is based on the parent's fear of losing the child's love. Connection parenting is based on love instead of fear. - Pam Leo

"Let's raise children who won't have to recover from their childhood." - Pam Leo

"The level of cooperation parents get from their children is usually equal to the level of connection children feel with their parents." - Pam Leo
Connection Parenting

How do you kill yourself without actually dying?
Love someone who doesn't love you back.

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When beauty dwells in the dark folds of night,
Love comes and finds a heart entangled in tresses.
Beauty and Love are as body and soul.
Beauty is the mine, Love is the diamond.
They have together since the beginning of time-Side by side, step by step. - Rumi

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Love is made up of three unconditional properties in qual measure: acceptance, understanding, and appreciation. Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. - Vera Nazarian

"Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens

There will always be a reason you meet people. Either you need them to change your life or you are the one who will change theirs. I've never had a relationship of any sort that I haven't learned something new from. Things I want, things I don't want, ways I want to feel and ways I don't want to feel. Take it all in and use what serves you. Let the rest go! - unknown

We met for a reason, either you're a blessing or a lesson. - unknown

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You are not the darkness you endured. You are the light that refused to surrender. - John Mark Green

Shout-out to all you beautiful lightbearers who refused to surrender to the darkness you survived. Your wounds and trauma do not define you. You are courage, resilience, and hope. You are a testament to the unstoppable light within. - John Mark Green

The night lovers tend to be the seekers, the dreamers, the writers, the lovers, and the progressive thinkers. Things tend to make more sense inside the quieter hours. - VIctoira Erickson

I like blankets and the moon and the night and the idea of winter. You? - Victoria Erickson

Focus on an ocean of positivies, not a puddle of negatives. - unknown

‘Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.’ - Helen Keller

At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from anther person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us. - Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is derived from the way you see life. It depends on your thoughts, not on what you have or what you do not have. - Spiritual Awakenings ॐ

Gratitude always comes before happiness. Don't chase happiness or people. Simply slow down, be and feel deeply grateful for everything. Happiness will come. - unknown

Wear gratitude like a cloak, And it will feed every corner of your life. - Rumi

Passion makes the old medicine new, passion lops off the bough of weariness. passion is the elixir that renews, how can there be weariness when passion is present? Oh, don’t sigh heavily from fatigue, seek passion, seek passion, seek passion! - Rumi

Like a sandcastle, all is temporary. Build it, tend it, enjoy it. And when the time comes, let it go. - Jack Kornfield< br />
Let go of your worriesand be completely clear-hearted,
like the face of a mirror that contains no images.
If you want a clear mirror,
behold yourself and see the shameless truth,
which the mirror reflects.
If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish,
what polishing might the mirror of the heart require?
Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference:
the heart conceals secrets,
while the mirror does not. - Rumi

Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh, Being Peace

The funciton of freedom is to free someone else. - Toni Morrison

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