“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”

Pay attention.
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Get your priorities right.
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Repair your life with gold.
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Learning to love the people you meet is half the art. The other half is to learn to love yourself, for then you will love your life. Emmy van Deurzen

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This is well worth a watch.
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Love yourself. But also analyze and be critical of how you think, act & behave. Self love without self awareness is useless. Be accountable.

Spend your days well.
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Treat everything you do and everyone you meet as sacred and you will create a secret garden inside yourself.
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It’s a process.
Keep going.
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#DyingMattersAwarenessWeek is coming up on 6th May.
The focus is on the language we use around death and dying.
Nonverbal language, silence, time and space are also key parts of Being-with-death and dying.

We are the very roots we are entangled in. Give those roots some room to grow.

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We used to say: just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they are not after you.

Focus on the big issues and don’t lose your energy on fighting the small ones that distract you.
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Self-acceptance is different from self-love in that there’s no pretense. Self-acceptance is self-neutrality. It’s the ability to say that you’re a flawed individual who possesses some good traits, but that the flaws don’t disqualify you altogether. existentialcafe.blog/2021/03/22/the…

Un-becoming is part of the art of living.
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Not being who you are is a tragedy with a remedy.

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Clearly there is no governmental understanding of the impact mental health has on work and services to help people are grossly under resourced. This points to a wider problem, that the way we have currently constructed our society is making people stressed, anxious and depressed.

“Idealism is not a reductive philosophy but an inflationary one.” | Jeremy Dunham argues idealism is a much more realist worldview than we think — more realist than its alternatives which deny the existence of the most real things there are: thoughts. iai.tv/articles/ideal…