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Grounding yourself in the creations and reiterations of this world brings hope to the fact that everything regenerates.

I have become a specialist on the future self I know I want to arrive at and the work she will be doing.

There is a version within you that is ready for a much, much better life.

Don't feel bad for how you have or are approaching your struggles. It's okay. Take care of yourself in these moments. There, in your own quiet place of love and acceptance you will find what life is trying to tell you. Because there is a message in your hardship. That inherently houses the way out of it.”

Love is an action, a participatory emotion. Whether we are engaged in a process of self-love or of loving others we must move beyond the realm of feeling to actualize love. This is why it is useful to see love as a practice. When we act, we need not feel inadequate or powerless; we can trust that there are concrete steps to take on love’s path. We

I did not want to accept a definition of love that would also compel me to face the possibility that I had not known love in the relationships that were most primary to me.

Open, honest, truth-telling individuals value privacy. We all need spaces where we can be alone with thoughts and feelings—where we can experience healthy psychological autonomy and can choose to share when we want to.

We are not born knowing how to love anyone, either ourselves or somebody else. However, we are born able to respond to care. As we grow we can give and receive attention, affection, and joy. Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment.

“To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.”