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“There’s something about this room that’s making a little ball of dread form in the pit of my stomach.”
― Freida McFadden, The Housemaid

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pendulum metaphor 

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Our hearts and minds change from moment to moment, just as the clouds shift in the evening sky as the sun goes down. Who are we to think we have grasped the true nature of our souls? The Buddha-mind within us will not be constrained by the limits of language.

Abbess Fushimi, “Shedding Light”

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“Everything now was so different: social media, the Internet, texting. It all sharpened people’s edges, made them the opposite of social. Turned them feral.”
― Kate Moretti, The Blackbird Season

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“He tells me the AWARE technique is an acronym for Accept the anxiety, Watch the anxiety, Act normal, Repeat, and Expect the best.”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

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“again—I’ve realized that’s what grieving is, a constant cycle of feeling better and feeling worse, and I’m hopeful that one day I’ll feel better more often than I feel worse—so”
― Colleen Oakley, Before I Go

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