"Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path."

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Tara Brach

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“Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.”
“The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a disagreeable thing.... So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend's wines at dinner upsets you. These things are disagreeable because they tell you that you are no longer youngâ€”that you have passed through youth, are now in middle age, and faring onward to the shadows in which, somewhere, a grave is hid.”
“Most people named Willie are either in prison or on the armwrestling circuit.”
“Documentation is a love letter that you write to your future self.”

Source : Damian Conway (2005). “Perl Best Practices”, p.153, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
“I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.”
“No matter what the delusions are, parents do not really know their children”
“Addiction might be redefined not as a character flaw but as a "biochemical deficit management." Our emotional habits will become an accepted factor of good health, along with slogans like "Heartache can be harmful to your unborn children."”
“I always try to have a vacation.”

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