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

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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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6 Negative Emotions That Are Secretly Trying to Protect You

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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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Wisdom is closing the Gap between Knowing and Feeling

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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

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

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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

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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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Dust being Dust

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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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Comparison is the thief of joy: The dangerous illusion behind borrowed desires

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Comparison is the thief of joy: The dangerous illusion behind borrowed desires

Comparison is the thief of joy: The dangerous illusion behind borrowed desires “Comparison is the thief of joy, and the killer of contentment.” — Theodore Roosevelt That midnight scroll on the screen and that one-second glance at the world through it suddenly makes you feel like you are missing out on something. Someone got married.

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The Most Dangerous Desire: Wanting the Next Chapter of Life Too Soon

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The Most Dangerous Desire: Wanting the Next Chapter of Life Too Soon

The Most Dangerous Desire: Wanting the Next Chapter of Life Too Soon “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson I prayed the wrong way for a very long time. And I am not talking about those relaxed, peaceful prayers we make on days that arrive as

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Forgiveness: The Most Powerful Form of Love

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Forgiveness: The Most Powerful Form of Love

Forgiveness: The Most Powerful Form of Love There are too many shapes of love to be counted. One of them is forgiveness. ~Yoon Ha Lee Love says, visit me again. It invites; despite leaving you distorted the last time it visited you. Love keeps making these little whispers until it starts echoing within. It reminds

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