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Your maladaptive behaviors and your actual personality are not the same thing — and differentiating the two is essential to healing.

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The stream of consciousness is raw, it does not always make sense yet. It is the first draft. It is your reaction before you have revised it.

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You deserve to forgive yourself for the things you got wrong.

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Being about something far greater than yourself is the most beautiful way to live.

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What do I have to give back to the world?

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They don’t expect to feel “good” all of the time.

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We think we’re more enlightened now because we’ve updated the vocabulary, but there hasn’t been any fundamental shift in our shallow, materialistic, competitive culture.

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It doesn’t have to be so strenuous: here are a few really simple ways to actualize yourself, and make even the smallest parts of your life feel like your own again.

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The problem was, I was apparently too different.

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Forgiving someone who has wronged you deeply, and asking for forgiveness from someone whom you have wronged