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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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"We’re all a little weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love."

~ Dr Seuss
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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"There's so much money to be made as a self-help writer I think, because we all want to believe that there is just one piece that we are missing, some learning we can apply to our lives and it will make everything make sense."

~ Chrissy Stockton
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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“As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.”

~Dalai Lama
 
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Geoff-Allen

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"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten."

~ Eckhart Tolle
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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"Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time."

~ Eckhart Tolle
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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“Never speak out of anger,
Never act out of fear,
Never choose from impatience,
But wait ... and peace will appear.”

~ Guy Finley
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.”

~ Nathaniel Branden
 
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Geoff-Allen

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"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one."

~ C.S. Lewis
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in the quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow."

~ Mary Jean Irion
 
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Geoff-Allen

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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."

~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 
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Geoff-Allen

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"I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door."

~ Maria Gibbs

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Suppose someone says something that angers you. Your old pathway wants to say something to punish him. But that makes us victims of our habit energy. Instead, you can breathe in and say, “Unhappiness is in me, suffering is in me, anger is in me, irritation is in me.” That is already helpful, recognizing your feelings and helping you not to respond right away. So you accept that anger and irritation in you, and smile to it. With mindfulness, you look at the other person and become aware of the suffering in him or in her. He may have spoken like that to try to get relief from his suffering. He may think that speaking out like that will help him suffer less, but in fact he will suffer more.

With just one or two seconds of looking and seeing the suf-fering in him, compassion is born. When compassion is born, you don’t suffer any more, and you may find something to say that will help him. With the practice, we can always open new neural pathways like that. When they become a habit, we call it the habit of happiness.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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Just as nurturing our ability to love is a way of awakening bodhichitta, so also is nurturing our ability to feel compassion. Compassion, however, is more emotionally challenging than loving-kindness because it involves the willingness to feel pain. It definitely requires the training of a warrior.

When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience our fear of pain. Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allow ourselves to move gently toward what scares us. The trick to doing this is to stay with emotional distress without tightening into aversion, to let fear soften us rather than harden into resistance.

~ Pema Chodron
 
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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

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"People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle."

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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 
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