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And when there is a state of agitation or anxiety, we can play with ways of breathing or practising the mettā, and also ways of sensing the breath or mettā, that feel as if they soothe the subtle body and smooth out its energies. Delicately tuning into the felt experience of these qualities of soothing or smoothing-out will help them to gradually gain strength, and help the agitated energies to slowly subside.
Seeing That Frees
Rob Burbea
And then there was Abenthy, my first real teacher. He taught me more than all the others set end to end. If not for him, I would never have become the man I am today. I ask that you not hold it against him. He meant well.
The Name of the Wind
Patrick Rothfuss
We often create relationships with people whose characters are similar to our parents’, even though we may hate these very character aspects. We do this because we experienced our first closeness, attention, love, and food with people who were not perfect. They may have beaten us, but they also fed us and bounced us on their knee now and then. So we take a composite snapshot—Love and Pain—and file it away in our mind. Later, we attract relationships that have this same composite.
Conscious Loving
Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks
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