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When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.

Melody Beattie

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Melody Beattie
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: May 26
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Writer
St Paul
Minnesota
Broken
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Heart

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Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
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Remember to be kind. Remember to be loving. Remember to feel all your feelings and to take care of yourself. But most of all, remember to be happy.
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Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I can let go, knowing that the relationship will find its own life-or not-and that I don't have to do all the work, only my share.
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Panic, not the task, is the enemy.
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Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.
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Our strength will continue if we allow ourselves the courage to feel scared, weak, and vulnerable.
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Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.
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Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.
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God, help me let go of my need to be afraid. I welcome peace, trust, acceptance, and safety into my life. I will make a point of listening to my healthy, rational fears, and will relinquish all the others.
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Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.
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Waiting time is not wasted time. Something is being worked out - in us, in someone else, in the Universe.
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...Help me let go of my need to stay immersed in negativity. I can change the energy in myself and my environment from nega­tive to positive. I will affirm the good until it sinks in and feels real. I will also strive to find one quality that I like about someone else who's important to me, and I will take the risk of telling him or her that.
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Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.
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When it's too difficult to keep swimming, float.
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Writing forces consciousness.
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Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.
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Perspective will come in retrospect.
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Control is an illusion.
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Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.
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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
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