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Finding Selfless Love: Turning a Missed Chance into a Choice.

Now that I have a choice, I want someone who will choose me back. I used to think I was searching for someone to have and to hold, but I know now I am searching for someone with practice in letting go.

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Vulnerability: The Hallmark of Living Bravely.

Are you getting married because you’re getting older and you don’t want to be alone, or because you’ve found someone whom you truly love, whom you feel worthy and deserving of? When we make choices based on fear, we lose ourselves and end up living lives that aren’t our own.

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The Price of Pleasing.

The price they pay for your pleasing is their freedom. The freedom to have their own experiences, their own feelings and emotions that may have nothing to do with you. The price you pay for your pleasing is your truth.

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This Is How We Love Now.

With the hope of something that will last without ever having to put in the work. With the dream of a love like our grandparents.

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Your First Choice Is Rarely the Optimal Choice: 5 Lessons on Being Wrong.

Think of the first person you dated. Would this person have been the best choice for your life partner? Go even further back, and imagine the first person you had a crush on. Finding a great partner is complicated, and expecting yourself to get it right on the first try is unreasonable. It’s ...

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Authenticity: Inhabiting Wildly Tender Revolution.

Congruent authenticity happens in the guts and bowels of your life. Being authentic is the grunt-work of the soul, of any deeply human, spiritual path. Being half here, half there, halfhearted, faking it to look good, strategizing to make things easier for your self — that’s the common way of ...

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Are You Choosing Love in a Cruel World?

Have you had enough? Are you ready for change? What is it going to take for you to choose differently? What is it going to take for you to choose love? Many do not believe that love is a choice. Rather, they simply hope or pray that somehow love will come save them and others from this pain. ...

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A Call To Action: To All Those Who Possess The Office Candy Dish‏.

If and when someone comes by to subtly let you know their disappointment via a snide remark, you really only have one option: raise that middle finger. It’s likely that this a-hole is someone you’ve already compiled a list of reasons to hate, and now is your chance, with this compellingly ...

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We Are All Alone.

Recently, I have personally come to know several single mothers. I hold great reverence for each of them, as I cannot imagine being solely responsible for the upbringing of another human. Yet they have done so, beautifully. Every time I hear another one of these ladies’ stories, I stand in awe ...

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Dharma Is… : Curtain Walls, Rothko Paintings, And Butterflies.

When I stand alone on a hillcrest, watching the sun burn itself to sleep, and feel connection to something larger than my own story; when I breathe in Child’s Pose listening to Jeff Buckley’s 'Hallelujah' in my bedroom the night before yet 'another' eye surgery; when I sit on the gallery floor ...

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