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Everything is impermanent—every pleasure, every pain, every body. But the survival instincts crave permanence and control. The body wants pleasure to stay forever and pain to go away forever.

— Noah Levine Refuge Recovery (2014)

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We could search the whole world and never find another being more worthy of our love than ourselves.

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Those who understand the way it is, rather than the way they wish it were, are on the path to freedom.

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Difficult personalities are a mirror for the places where we get stuck in judgment, fear, and confusion.

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Recovery is also the ability to inhabit the conditions of the present reality, whether pleasant or unpleasant.

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