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1 " To live from vibrant love in a world where degrading structures prevail—this is both our predicament and its answer. "
― Ralph De La Rosa , Don't Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freak-Outs
2 " I think the point is to be as true to our convictions about the preciousness of life as we can be, to continually fail and fall down at times, and then to bounce back better than before. It’s not a problem to be solved but rather a process to discover within. And we do this in the name of love,that which is also known as justice. "
3 " When we touch curiosity, we graze the rim of infinite possibility. "
4 " When we talk about our ego as something bad, it’s just self-hatred wearing a spiritual disguise. "
5 " So much of what the self-love movement gets wrong is the result of viewing the self as somekind of monolithic and singular entity. That’s how we’ve been taught to experience ourselves.But when we put ourselves under the microscope, when we take a good look inside, that viewstarts to unravel. We begin to experience our inner lives as fluid, dynamic, multifaceted, vast,and surprising. "
6 " The energy of caring is at the heart of justice itself. "
7 " Sometimes it can seem like your inner child part isn’t receptive to your care. It’s as if this part ofyou isn’t used to receiving such goodness from others, or even from you, and they might nottrust it. If that happens, know that this is common and will change over time. Sometimes weneed to make amends with our parts for how things have been until now. Sometimes we justneed to gently continue wishing them well regardless of their reaction. "
8 " Our anger is moral. Our rage is sacred. Our anxiety contains wisdom. Our hearts are tellingus the truth. If the truth makes others uncomfortable—good. Show me an alarm clock thatmakes a sweet sound and I’ll show you an alarm clock I can sleep through. "
9 " We are not one-dimensional, and our multiple dimensions are not static. Just as our bodies aremade of many parts that form a dynamic, interwoven system that works together, so it is withour psyches. We are more awake, alive, and complex than we know. "
