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“Addiction to reading... There are worse things in the world to be Addicted to. I admire your hobby choice it's mine as well.”
“I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere”
“Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.”
“What if there were health food stores on every corner in the hood, instead of liquor stores!?”
“Just as one goes on a fast or a body cleanse you owe it to yourselves to detox your mind, it will not be easy but easy never yielded lasting results.”
“The distressing internal state is not examined: thefocus is entirely on the outside: What can Ireceive from the world thatwill make me feel okay, if only for a moment? Bare attention can showher th...”
“It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.”
“He in any form was a drug to the addiction of being desired while she was always wanted.”
“Lets remind ourselves that to be compassionate and forgiving doesnt mean we are endorsing dysfunctional behaviour. On the contrary, its essential the harm that was inflicted upon us is properly val...”
“Be honest with the Lord. If youre afraid, say so. If youre feeling abandoned, tell Him. He already knows every sin youve committed and He loves you anyway. Confess honestly. Beg for help. Converse ...”
“What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do you realize how twisted that is? It amazes me sometimes that humans still exist. We're just animals, after all. And how ca...”
“Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, t...”
“Their boots were black and shiny and your treasures gleamed like stars,Bones from deep down in the fertile crescent.”
“I ended up going into this big art historical argument.' [Barry Blinderman] invoked, for example, Matthias Grnewalds Isenheim altarpiece, painted in the sixteenth century for a monastery where monk...”
“No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons powerful ones why a person retreats into addiction.”
“No one can control their results. We can, however, control our attitude. When we practise compassion, it is most effective when it is unconditional and free from seeking an outcome compassion is a...”
“In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.”
“Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.”
“I'm so in love with you I can't stand up.”
“And finallythe glass that contains and spills this stuff continuallywhile the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathersup empties, gives back the drinker's own face. Who knows what it ...”
