Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you'd feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life. Geneen Roth
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If we would love our feelings as much as we love our pet, we would feel as if we were living in heaven every day of our sweet life. If we would accept our emotional pain as well as our physical pain, then that pain would no longer be there to cause us pain. It wouldn’t matter how many times we fell down or made mistakes. We could just get up and start over again.

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