"We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a hard time fully opening to it or letting it all the way into us. This disconnects us from our own heart, exacerbating our sense of love's scarcity."

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Source : John Welwood (2005). “Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

John Welwood

#Love Quotes #Heart Quotes #Hard Times Quotes

“Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”
“I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of UKIP.”

Source : "Kilroy resigns Ukip whip" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2004.
“Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.”
“While you don't need a formal written contract before you get married, I think it's important for both partners to spell out what they expect from each other. . . . There are always plenty of surprises- and lots of give and take-once you're married.”
“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.”
“It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.”
“Beginning in 1962... the courts began to systematically secularize the nation, reflecting its view that God and the Scripture had no place in the public arena.”
“Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim -. . . for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.”

Source : "The Fiery Fountains" by Margaret Caroline Anderson, (part 1), 1951.

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