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If I Could Go Back in Time, I’d Have Coffee with Rainer Maria Rilke: Quotes That Spoke to My Soul

If I Could Go Back in Time, I’d Have Coffee with Rainer Maria Rilke: Quotes That Spoke to My Soul I doubt whether there is such a thing as weak or strong memory, now that I find myself registering things that I connect deeply with without making any effort. All that is needed to reserve […]

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Quotes and Insights

The Art of Becoming After Being Broken: 8 Stages of Healing and Self-Rebuilding

The Art of Becoming After Being Broken: 8 Stages of Healing and Self-Rebuilding

The Art of Becoming After Being Broken: 8 Stages of Healing and Self-Rebuilding We are not on good terms with brokenness. We treat it with indifference and try to dodge it. And the sad part is that when we need more self-compassion, we become cold. This is due to our distorted relationship with brokenness. We

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Guidance for Real Life

4 Natural Sanctuaries that heal the mind: Silence, Solitude, Stillness, and Simplicity

4 Natural Sanctuaries that Heal the Mind: Silence, Solitude, Stillness & Simplicity

4 Natural Sanctuaries that heal the mind: Silence, Solitude, Stillness, and Simplicity Cambridge Dictionary defines sanctuary as a place of protection or safety, especially for someone or something that is being chased or hunted. We need a sanctuary because we, too, are being hunted. Hunted for our attention. Attention has become the currency of the

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Conscious living

6 Negative Emotions That Are Secretly Trying to Protect You

Discover how negative emotions like loneliness, guilt, insecurity, inferiority, and irritation can become powerful guides for self-awareness, emotional healing, and personal growth.

6 Negative Emotions That Are Secretly Trying to Protect You The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.— Joseph Campbell Have you ever rejected a matrimonial alliance at first glance because they did not grab your attention or because they did not fit a certain standard of attractiveness? We often dismiss people

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Becoming a Better Human

Wisdom is closing the Gap between Knowing and Feeling

Wisdom Is Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Feeling

Wisdom Is Closing the Gap Between Knowing and Feeling Wisdom is not Awareness. Wisdom is staying with It. Most people think wisdom is understanding. They think a wise person is someone who knows why things happen, someone who can see the lesson behind the struggle or the purpose behind the pain. There is truth in

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The Pause Is a Place of Power: Why Stillness Is the Secret to Peace, Clarity, and Inner Strength

The Pause Is a Place of Power: Why Stillness Is the Secret to Peace, Clarity, and Inner Strength

The Pause is a place of Power: Why Stillness is the secret to Peace, Clarity, and Inner Strength The pause is a place of power. Go there often. ~Octavia Raheem Brakes in a car do not take away its power to move. Instead, they allow it to slow down when moving forward isn’t safe. They

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Becoming a Better Human

Self-Respect Often Looks Like Disappointing People Who Benefited From Your Lack of It

Self-Respect Often Looks Like Disappointing People Who Benefited From Your Lack of It

Self-Respect often looks like disappointing people who benefited from your lack of it The Hidden Cost of People-Pleasing and Self-Abandonment Self-respect, in its simplest form, is love for yourself. It is not self-obsession. It is not selfishness. It is the love that you need to pour into yourself because it is as essential to your

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Sweet, Strong, Ambitious: Why Certain Women Inspire You So Deeply

Sweet, Strong, Ambitious: Why Certain Women Inspire You So Deeply

Sweet, Strong, Ambitious: Why certain women inspire you so deeply What you admire in other women may be revealing the woman you are capable of becoming. There is something mysteriously magnetic about certain women, the ones who catch your attention, hold your gaze, and make you wish you knew them. You admire something they carry,

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Becoming a Better Human

Emotional Numbness: The Silent Battle Happening Within You

Emotional Numbness: The Silent Battle Happening Within You

Emotional Numbness: The Silent Battle Happening Within You The bad part about being numb is that there will come a time when you’ll want to feel something, but you won’t know how to. Some emotions are like gangsters.They threaten you.They bring terror.They overwhelm you. You lose your calm because fear envelops you.You feel weak and

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Becoming a Better Human

Dust being Dust

Dust Being Dust How to Protect Your Kindness Without Becoming Bitter

Dust being Dust Why you should not stop being kind just because the world became harsh. I never get angry at dust, even when I find it messing up my space. It does not respect my work.It does not value my cleanliness.It does not appreciate my dedication.It does not let me rest even for a

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