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I can sense and feel this wretched compassion that I don't want. But it's there. It's a very painful kind of compassion. It's not one you look for. You don't want this kind of compassion it just happens.

Caroline Myss

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Caroline Myss
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: December 2
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Chicago
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The love that flows through your heart purifies not only your own spirit, but the love you share with others.
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Your biography becomes your biology. This biography includes the totality of your choices, the things you feed your body - you thoughts, your actions, your food - the thing you feed your life.
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Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.
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Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence it's just not talking.
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When you are working well with your energy, you are also making the best expression of your personal power... By reading your own energy, by becoming aware of the lens through which you see your world, you can change your mind and change your life.
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It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path of purpose and meaning unless he or she is motivated by a crisis. Most often we require the failure of some system of power that we rely on before we take action.
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Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.
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If you want to know for sure that you are on the right path, here's your clue: You're not put in a position where you feel like you have to negotiate your sense of integrity, which is an act of betrayal. You don't feel like you have to compromise who you are.
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I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.
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People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.
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People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.
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Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.
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Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.
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Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.
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Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.
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