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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.

— Noah Levine Against the Stream (2007)

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

Refuge Recovery (2014)

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

Refuge Recovery (2014)

Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Against the Stream (2007)

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

Refuge Recovery (2014)

If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

The Heart of the Revolution (2011)

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