Okay, I’m running on three hours of sleep here. Well, all right, fine. I’m also running on four blueberry pancakes and thee glasses of Glenlivet. But the pancakes and the scotch are just making me even more tired that I already was, so I don’t think they should even be figured into the equation. No, I’m sure they shouldn’t. Regardless, I’m seriously considering using duct tape to keep my eyes open, maybe taking a cold shower and substituting the bar of soap with a nine-volt battery. Hello!
I got up early today in order to attend the Arkansas New Play Festival, which is a two-weekend–uh–thing involving–damn it, brain–plays. (I’m gonna try this again.) It’s a multiple-day event where new plays, or plays that are still in production, are read in front of live audiences, after which the writers and directors get feedback about what works, what doesn’t work. It’s like a trial-run for theater shows. At least that’s my scotch and pancakes understanding of it.
Today the festival was at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville. (Tomorrow it’s at Theater Squared in Fayetteville.) Y’all, I have never seen so many people in all my life. It was like the population of Queens descended on the lobby of Crystal Bridges. I guess everyone was there to see the Chihuly exhibit, which I thought had something to do with hot sauce, but actually has to do with blown glass. Here’s a picture of the only exhibit I could see for free. I don’t know what the official title is, but I’m either calling it Pretty Glass Balls in Ugly Water, or simply, Jesus Left His Toys Behind. (As my friend Mary recently said, “Marcus, I wonder about you.”)
But back to the festival. Today’s schedule included two plays with a break in between. I thought both plays were extremely well-acted, and I especially enjoyed the writing of the second play, which was called Comet Town and was written by Rick Erhstin. I’m not doing so great with descriptions tonight, so I’ll just say it was about a fucked-up family with a grandfather with dementia who thought the planes flying over his home were comets and the sounds coming from the pipes in the basement were his dead wife. The dialogue and acting were so compelling that for probably thirty minutes I had a steady stream of tears running down my face. If things had gotten any sadder, I would have needed my bathing suit.
Thank God I sat in the back row.
When the play was over, the lady next to me–who was one of the actors from the first play–struck up a conversation. For a few minutes we talked about the festival and then progressed to–Where are you from?–Where are YOU from?–What do you do?–What do YOU do? (You know how it goes.) Anyway, she was the nicest lady you’d ever want to meet, and when I told her that I was a dance teacher and a writer, she asked if I taught a class on Friday nights. Well, we’d been talking about theater, so I thought she was talking about theater classes, so I said, “Oh no, that’s someone else.” But then she said she meant dancing classes, since she’d heard of a dancer/writer who taught swing dance classes in the area. Well, I have a friend who does that, so I said, “No, that’s someone else. He’s Asian.” And then–AND THEN–she said, “No, this guy is white. He writes a blog about his therapist.”
That’s funny, I thought, I write a blog about MY therapist.
Wait a minute.
Oh. My. God.
(She’s talking about me.)
Seriously, my head got so big that I thought I was going to lose my balance and fall out of my chair.
I told the lady–whose name is Rebecca and has a sister who’s danced with me a couple of times and recommended the blog–that she was the first person I’d met “in real life” who’d read the blog that I didn’t already know. So I asked her if she’d take a selfie with me (I think she said yes) and told her I planned on putting it on the blog because that’s not weird. (Right? That’s not weird?)
Okay, I really feel like we can stop there. Period. The end. What else is important after your day has been made? But fine, I’ll keep going. And don’t worry, my head will return to normal size by this time tomorrow.
Leaving Crystal Bridges, I headed for my friend Betty’s house to spend the night and save myself a lot of time on the road tonight and tomorrow. When I got to Betty’s, she’d just started a yoga workout, so I said I wanted to join. Well, I haven’t done yoga in over six months, so for thirty minutes I stretched, moaned, and discovered aches and pains in muscles I didn’t even know I had. When the video ended, I lay in a pile of sweat and regret and decided to turn my life over to Jesus and repent of my sinful eating habits. I thought, chocolate cake is evil–carbohydrates are for heathens–fried chicken is the devil’s workshop.
And then Betty asked if I wanted pancakes for dinner, and I said, “Hell yes” because–life is ironic.
So the coolest thing. Sometime shortly after 2005 when I opened my former dance studio, I designed the studio’s one and only t-shirt. I think we sold like twenty-five of them. Well, Betty was one of my first students in those days, and she bought one of the shirts and still has it (and wore it tonight for yoga). The front says, “Put your best left foot forward” because I can’t tell you the number of times someone has told me, “I have two left feet,” as if that’s a legitimate excuse for not dancing or not being willing to learn. I mean, THAT’S WHAT LESSONS ARE FOR. Anyway, check out the shirt.
I just remembered that the phrase “put your best left foot forward” came from the guy I was dating at the time. I thought it was so clever–and still do–that I put it on the shirts and planned to use it for fliers, coffee mugs, and maybe a personal tramp stamp. But alas, best laid plans. But even now, I think it’s a great encouragement. So many nights–most of them–I sit down to write this blog, and it feels like I have two left feet. I don’t know where I’m going or how I’m going to get there. More often than not, I think, Just quit–stay where you are. (This happens in life too.)
Standing still is no longer good enough.
However, I’ve promised myself I’m going to write. Of course, I want every word to be glorious. (Is that too much to ask?) I want people to laugh and I want them to cry. I don’t like it when it my words stumble along anymore than anyone else does. But the fact is that sometimes we move with grace and sometimes we move with struggle. This afternoon when I watched the plays, it was evident that things were still in progress. I mean, there were some glorious moments (I laughed–I cried), but there were also moments that fell flat. And whereas I’m often critical of such things, I’ve reminded myself this evening that we all have a right to put our best left foot forward. In fact, it takes buckets of courage and vulnerability for someone to do that.
Maybe I’ve never said this before, but when it comes to dancing and dieting and writing and living–I don’t have it all figured out. (There, I admit it.) I’m sure I never will. But rather than giving up, I’m willing to give it a try, willing to stumble along, willing to put one left foot in front of the other, since standing still is no longer good enough.
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A storm can leave your life just as quickly as it enters it.
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Normal people don’t walk on water.
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Love stands at the front door and says, “You don’t have to change a thing about yourself to come inside.”
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Ultimately, we all have to get our validation from inside, not outside, ourselves.
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You’re exactly where you need to be.
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All things are moving as they should.
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The truth doesn’t suck.
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Transformation doesn’t have a drive thru window. It takes time to be born again.
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"We all have inner wisdom. We all have true north."
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In this moment, we are all okay.
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Since one life touches another, we can never really say how far our influence goes. Truly, our story goes on and on in both directions. Truly, we are infinite.
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Nothing physical was ever meant to stay the same.
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If another's perspective, another's story about you is kinder than the one you're telling yourself, surely that's a story worth listening to.
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What are you really running away from?
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Damn if good news doesn't travel the slowest.
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"Sickness and health come and go, just like everything else. It's just the way life is."
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Rejecting yourself is what really hurts.
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Healing is like the internet at my parents’ house—it takes time.
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There’s nothing you can do to change the seasons or hurry them along.
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"The truth is right in front of you."
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It’s enough just to be here.
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When you hide your hurt, you can’t help but pass it on. It ends up seeping, sometimes exploding out.
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Help is always on the way.
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All your scattered pieces want to come back home.
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You have everything you need.
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Life is better when we're not in control. When we mentally leave room for anything to happen, anything can.
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Everything is all right and okay.
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Nothing was made to last forever.
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Any mundane thing–an elevator ride!–can be turned into something joyous.
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We’re all made of the same stuff.
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"Obviously, God's capable of a lot. Just look around."
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Sometimes we move with grace and sometimes we move with struggle. But at some point, standing still is no longer good enough.
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All the while, we imagine things should be different than they are, but life persists the way it is.
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In other words, there's always SOMETHING else to improve or work on. Therefore, striving for perfection is not only frustrating, it's also technically impossible.
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We can hang on and put everything safely in its place, and then at some point, we’re forced to let go.
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Some days, most days, are a mixed bag. We cry, we laugh, we quit, we start again. That's life. In the process, we find out we're stronger than we thought we were, and perhaps this is healing.
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Abundance is a lot like gravity--it's everywhere.
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There's a wisdom underneath everything that moves us and even the planets at its own infallible pace. We forget that we too are like the planets, part of a larger universe that is always proceeding one step at time, never in the wrong place, everything always right where it belongs.
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Life proceeds at its own pace.
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Anything and everything is possible.
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We may never be done, but that doesn't mean we'll never be complete. And surely we are complete right here, right now, and surely there is space enough for the full moon, for you and for me, and all our possibilities.
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"That love inside that shows up as joy or enthusiasm is your authentic self."
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Life is never just so. Honestly, it’s a big damn mess most of the time.
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We all need to feel alive.
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Pressure, it seems, is necessary to positive internal change. After all, lumps of coal don't shine on their own.
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Both sunshine and rain are required for growth.
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Just because your face is nice to look at doesn’t mean you don’t have a heart that’s capable of being broken. These things happen to humans, and there isn’t a one of us who isn’t human.
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Your emotions are tired of being ignored.
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Sometimes you have to go back before you can go forward.
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If anything is ever going to change for the better, the truth has to come first.
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The deepest waters are the only ones capable of carrying you home.
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Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it’s not true.
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Rest gives us time to dream. One day, for certain, you’ll wake up. And you’ll be grateful for the time you rested, and you’ll be just as grateful that you’re different, far from the person who fell asleep.
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There is a force, a momentum that dances with all of us, sometimes lifting us up in the air, sometimes bringing us back down in a great mystery of starts and stops.
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It's enough to sit in, and sometimes drag ass through, the mystery.
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"No one's story should end on the ground."
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Being scared isn’t always an invitation to run away. More often than not, it’s an invitation to grow a pair and run toward.
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"Authenticity is worth all the hard work. Being real is its own reward."
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"Things that shine do better when they're scattered about."
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When the universe speaks—listen.
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Give yourself a break.
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Our shoulders weren’t meant to carry the weight of the world.
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We are all connected in a great mystery and made of the same strong stuff.
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There’s nothing wrong with taking a damn nap.
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A mantra: Not an asshole, not a doormat.
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"Not knowing what's going to happen next is part of the adventure."
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Patting yourself on the back is better than beating yourself over the head.
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We think of hope as something pristine, but hope is haggard like we are.
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Your story isn’t about your physical challenges.
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Everything is progressing as it should.
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Of all the broken things in your life, you’re not one of them–and you never have been.
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"Sure, people change, but love doesn't."
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There’s a lot of magic around you.
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You can’t pick and choose what you receive from life, and you can’t always accurately label something as bad.
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Boundaries are about starting small, enjoying initial successes, and practicing until you get your relationships like you want them.
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"The heart sings for its own reasons."
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Each season has something to offer.
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And God knows you don't make everyone else happy. But this is no reason to quit or be discouraged, since doing what you love and feel called to do is never--never--about gaining acceptance from others.
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Allowing someone else to put you down or discourage your dreams is, quite frankly, anything but self-care.
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Who’s to say that one experience is better than another?
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It's never a small thing to open your home or heart to another person.
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"It's never a minor thing to take better care of yourself."
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A friend’s laughter takes us backward and carries us forward simultaneously.
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All emotions are useful.
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A break is no small thing to give yourself.
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None of us is ever really lost. At least we're never really alone. For always there is someone to help point your ship in the right direction, someone who sees you when you can't see yourself.
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All things become ripe when they’re ready.
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You've got to believe that things can turn around, that even difficult situations--perhaps only difficult situations--can turn you into something magnificent.
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You've really got to believe in yourself and what you're doing. Again, it comes down to integrity and making something solid of yourself, something that's so well-built on the inside that it can handle any storm.
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There’s a power that comes when you meet life’s challenges head-on. Those are the times you breathe the deepest. Those are the times the waters come forth and your heart beats every bit as loud as the thunder claps. Those are the times you know more than ever—no matter what happens next—in this moment, you’re alive.
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Your life is a mystery. But you can relax. It’s not your job to solve it.
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Even if you can't be anything you want to be, you can absolutely be who you were meant to be. Don't let anyone else tell you differently.
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The symbols that fascinate us are meant to transform us.
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"Why should anyone be embarrassed about the truth?"
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I don't think anyone came to this planet in order to get it right the first time. What would be the point?
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if you're content with yourself and you're always with yourself, then what's the problem?
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It’s not where you are, it’s whom you are there with.
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"Miracles happen."
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"No one comes into this life knowing how to dance, always moving with grace."
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Bodies are so mysterious, much more complicated than car doors. They take more patience to understand and work with. They require more than a couple hours to repair.
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It’s never too late to be your own friend.
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When we expect great things, we see great things.
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Sure, we forget it plenty of times, but on the inside we’re all shining. This is what gives me hope, knowing that we are all radiant.
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If you want to find a problem, you will.
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We don’t get to boss life around.
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"Beating yourself up is a far cry from self-respect."
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Whereas I've always pictured patience as a sweet, smiling, long-haired lady in a white dress, I'm coming to see her as a frumpy, worn-out old broad with three chins. You know--sturdy--someone who's been through the ringer and lived to tell about it.
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Solid help and solid hope are quite the same thing.
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Growth and getting far in life have nothing to do with where you’re physically standing.
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"I believe we're all courageous, and I believe that no one is alone."
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Our struggles unearth our strengths.
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"When you’re authentic, your authenticity is enough. You don’t need to compare."
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You can't build a house, much less a life, from the outside-in. Rather, if you want something that's going to last, you have to start on the inside and work your way out, no matter how long it takes and how difficult it is.
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Just as there’s day and night literally, there’s also day and night emotionally. Like the sun, one minute we’re up, the next minute we’re down. Our perspectives change constantly. There’s nothing wrong with this. The constellations get turned around once a day, so why can’t you and I? Under heaven, there’s room enough for everything–the sun, the moon and stars, and all our emotions. Yes, the universe–our home–is large enough to hold every bit of us.
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More often than not, the truth is a monster. It gets in your face and makes you get honest. Sometimes the truth separates you from people you care about, if for no other reason than to bring you closer to yourself.
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As taught in the story of the phoenix, a new life doesn't come without the old one first being burned away.
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Even a twisted tree grows tall and strong.
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Stop buying your own bullshit.
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No emotion is ever truly buried.
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Things are only important because we think they are.
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Sometimes life can really kick you in the balls and make you drop to your knees.
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All great heroes, at some point, surrender to the unknown.
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Along the way you’ll find yourself, and that’s the main thing, the only thing there really is to find.
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If life can create a problem, it can also provide an answer.
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Our world is magical, a mysterious place where everything somehow works together, where nothing and no one is without influence, where all things great and small make a difference.
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Healing requires letting go of that thing you can’t let go of.
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For I am a universe–large–like you are, and there is room here for all that we contain. An ego, of course, is small, and it is disgusted and humiliated by the smallest of things. But a universe is bigger than that, much too big to judge itself or another, much too big to ever question how bright it is shining.
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There’s no such thing as a small action. There’s no such thing as small progress.
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Healing is never a straight line.
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Love is all around us.
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"Kindness is never a small thing."
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You can be weird here. You can be yourself.
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Go easier on yourself.
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Every stress and trauma in your life is written somewhere in your body.
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For me, it's important to hang on to this idea that no matter how bad they are, your circumstances can turn around, to believe that if an elephant can show up in your life, it can also disappear, to believe that just as the universe full of big problems, it is also full of big answers.
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Abundance comes in many forms.
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If you’re making yourself up to get someone else’s approval–stop it–because you can’t manipulate anyone into loving you. People either embrace you for who and what you are–or they don’t.
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Boundaries aren’t something you knock out of the park every time.
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Sometimes you have to give up wanting something before you can have it.
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The clearer you see what's going on inside of you, the clearer you see what's going on outside of you. It's that simple.
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Freedom lies on the other side of everything you're afraid of.
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It's the holes or the spaces in our lives that give us room to breathe and room to rest in, room to contain both good and bad days, and--when the time is right--room for something else to come along.
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Aren’t you perfect just the way you are?
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Take your challenges and turn them into the source of your strengths.
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You can be more discriminating.
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Give yourself an abundance of grace.
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We always have more support than we realize.
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The more honest you are about what's actually happening inside of you, the happier you are.
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The journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. And whereas it's just a single step, it's a really important one.
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I believe that God is moving small universes to communicate with me and with all of us, answering prayers and sending signs in unplanned moments, the touch of a friend's hand, and the very air we breathe.
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As the ocean of life changes, we must too.
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It’s hard to say where a kindness begins or ends.
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Perfection is ever-elusive.
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Nothing is set in stone here.
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Whatever needs to happen, happens.
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Better that you're true to yourself and the whole world be disappointed than to change who you are and the whole world be satisfied.
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If you're not living a fully authentic life, a part of you will never be satisfied.
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Suddenly the sun breaks through the clouds. A dove appears--the storm is over.
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No good story ever ends.
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Beautiful isn’t something that comes in a particular package. Beautiful is simply being yourself.
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Storms don’t define us, they refine us.
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Our burdens are lighter when we share them.
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You absolutely have to be vulnerable and state what you want.
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Sometimes the best you can do is metaphorically sit you ego down, look it square in the eye, and say, “Would you shut the fuck up already?”
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For all of the things life takes away, it gives so much more in return. Whether we realize it or not, there’s always grace available.
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Getting comfortable in your own skin takes time.
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You know when someone crosses a line. You may not want to admit it, but you know.
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Confidence takes what you have and amplifies it. Confidence makes anyone sexy.
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One thing finishes, another starts. Things happen when they happen.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Answers come built-in. There are no "just problems."
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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We can rewrite our stories if we want to.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"It's really good news to find out that the world isn't as scary as you thought it was."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"There are a lot of benefits to being right here, right now."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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We're allowed to relabel and remake ourselves.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You can’t change what happened, but you can change the story you tell yourself about it.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You really do belong here.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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So perhaps perfection has little to do with that which changes and everything to do with that which doesn't. For surely there is a still, small something inside each of us that never changes, something that is timeless and untouchable, something inherently valuable and lovable--something perfect.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"We were made to love without conditions. That's the packaging we were sent with."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
"You can't change your age, but you can change what your age means to you."
Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You can rise above. You can walk on water.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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No one is immune from life’s challenges.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Life doesn’t need us to boss it around.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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We follow the mystery, never knowing what’s next.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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No one dances completely alone.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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If you think only girls cry or that crying is inappropriate for some reason, fuck you. Some things are too damn heavy to hold on to forever.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You can’t stuff down the truth—it always comes up.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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We are surrounded by the light.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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You can’t play small forever.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Perhaps this is what bravery really is--simply having run out of better options, being so totally frustrated by the outside world that all you can do is go within.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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Some things simply take time and often more than one trip to the hardware store.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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One day a change will come.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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It takes forty years in the desert for seas to part.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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If you want to become who you were meant to be, it's absolutely necessary to shed your old skin. Sure it might be sad to say goodbye--to your old phone, to your old beliefs, anything that helped get you this far--but you've got to let go in order to make room for something new.
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Quotes from CoCo (Marcus)
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It’s okay to ask for help.
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