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• "The particular sensations, emotions or thoughts that arise when we practice mindfulness are not so important. It is our willingness to become still and pay attention to our experience… With time we develop the capacity to relate to our passing experience, whether in meditation or daily life, with deep clarity and kindness."

  — Tara Brach

  Radical Acceptance

• "The love and understanding of a friend, like a deep well of the purest water, refreshes the very source of our being."

  — Tara Brach

  Radical Acceptance

• "The true quality of our love is exposed by the stresses and strains of our relationships with others, especially those with whom we work the closest."

  — Alexander Strauch, Robert L. Peterson

  Agape Leadership

• "It is not feelings that are the problem, but what we do with them that matters. The freedom to deal with them and to confront them with reason and faith is what makes us fully human."

  — Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "Normally, emotions need to be expressed in some way in order to be processed. Emotions are energy. If they are not processed, they become blocks in our bodies and nervous systems to the free flow of our energy systems and of grace."

  — Father Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "Every mental activity has a physical effect as well."

  — Lisa Feldman Barrett

  How Emotions Are Made

• "Normal anxiety is an expression of the capacity of the organism to react to threats; this capacity is innate and has its inherited neurophysiological system."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "…conscious anxiety is more painful but it is available also to use in the service of integration of the self."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "…anxiety can inform your life, but it does not have to define it. You’re not destined for anxiety; you’re destined for equanimity."

  — Sheryl Paul

  The Wisdom of Anxiety

• "The constructive way of dealing with anxiety… consists of learning to live with it, accepting it as a “teacher,” to borrow Kierkegaard’s phrase, to school us in confronting our human destiny."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

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  Anxiety: Symptoms, Types, and Treatments

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