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"You're such a tool."
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Many traditions contain the notion of "journey", generally, and "leave-taking", specifically.
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You've got to serve somebody, yes indeed.Bob Dylan, 1979
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Once we've both identified our areas of shame and brought enough self-compassion to those areas to actually be able to look at them, we can use them to guide us home to our Unique Selves.
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Once you have a clear idea of the chapters of your life story about which you still carry shame, you can begin to work with them.
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It would be good to be wise, right? We generally speak quite favorably of the wise and their distinctive virtue, wisdom.
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Shame is a pretty useful thing, at least in part.
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Do you keep the Sabbath?
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Equanimity is said to be one of the benefits of a mindfulness practice. Even the most commonly-found definition of the word proclaims this: "evenness of mind especially under stress."
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Alone or with?
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Mastery.
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Are there aspects of yourself that you struggle to forgive? Perhaps there was an occasion when you caused another person great pain.
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A few years ago, a fellow participant in a process training at Shalom Mountain declared, with a level of child-like freshness and excitement that belied her half-century on the planet, "and we get
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To what or whom are you devoted?
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Just as each of us is unfathomably, excruciatingly unique, so, too, will be the practice each of us adopts.
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