It takes more than just awareness for us to change. It takes courage and humility and the willingness to occasionally feel like fools and laugh at ourselves.

When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.

Everything happens when we let our guards down; be it good or bad.

Life doesn't come with a remote control. If you don't like what's playing, get up and change the channel.
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The journey into wholeness means we have to learn to respect the other voice that speaks within us. It means to pay attention to our emotions, thoughts, dreams and fantasies even when they're unpleasant and objectionable.

wasting what little breath he did have laughing at himself. Because sometimes, that’s all you could do. You make a fucking stupid mistake, and you could only call yourself an idiot and then snap back before you screwed up again.