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How to have a relationship with a wild animal…including your wild self!

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For those moments when a howl is exactly what you need.

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Peter Levine, developer of Somatic Experiencing, speaks about healing shame.

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Peter Levine on two ways to feel calmer and safer in your body.

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Peter Levine & Thomas Huebl on Healing Trauma and Spiritual Growth.

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Inspiring concepts for teaching children in Japan and Scandinavia

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Ray Castellino on Somatic Bonding for babies and adults who didn't experience healthy births.

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Who I Am - a meditation cd recorded by Brooks Greene-Barton, founder of Art of God.​

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Along with Cranial Sacral Therapy, Jin Shin Jitsu is a wonderful, easy method for calming and healing: 

QUOTES & BITS 

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Rabindranath Tagore

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As you slowly discover your intolerance, your criticalness, your refusal to accept others for what they are, you can automatically know that you do exactly the same with yourself.
Eva Pierrakos

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Not knowing what the future holds...that’s happiness.

Kuwata Misao 

I am listening to what fear teaches. I will never be gone. I am a scar, a report from the frontlines, a talisman, a resurrection. A rough place on the chin of complacency.

Audre Lorde

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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

James Baldwin

The time will come / when, with elation / you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror / and each will smile at the other's welcome…

Derek Walcott

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When I’m gone, I’m going to be gone. You will experience the void in my absence. I’m going beyond the beyond. Don’t try to hold me back, let me go. Let the void be there. You won’t be able to fill it. That void is God making space for love.

Ray Castellino

…the world does not function primarily by its laws, its moral order and its social structures, but rather by the spiritual basis which gives all these things meaning, and protects them from corruption. When we look at existence as something solely to be conquered, we bring only chaos.

Rachel Pollack

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Mary Oliver

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Until at last the strength I longed for came to me, and steered me through the Java Sea.
Dwight Long

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All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.
James Thurber

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For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks… the work for which all other work is but preparation. 

Rilke

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Although he cannot command the conditions to which he awakens from the sleep of birth, he is nevertheless the master of his fate, for he can manipulate those conditions in such a way that they shall bear him whither so ever he will, just as a ship can tack against a head-wind; and the worse the conditions, the stronger the wind and the swifter his progress.
Dion Fortune

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I have never been contained except when I made the prison.
Mary Evans

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Every emotion expresses itself in the muscular system. Anxiety is tremendous excitement held, bottled up. Anger should be expressed. 

Bruce Lee

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When searching for something that is lost, one first finds the places where it is not.
Gilliam Ness

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I don't hate my enemies. After all, I made 'em.
Red Skelton

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I’m going to be happy. I’m going to skip. I’m going to be glad. I’m going to smile a lot. I’m going to be easy. I’m going to count my blessings. I’m going to look for reasons to feel good. I’m going to dig up positive things from the past. I’m going to look for positive things where I stand. I’m going to look for positive things in the future. It is my natural state to be a happy person. It’s natural for me to love and to laugh. This is what is most natural for me. I am a happy person!
Abraham - channeled by Esther Hicks

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Simple ain't easy.
Thelonious Monk

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Not all those that wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien

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Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire

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Do not be too quick to assume your enemy is a savage just because he is your enemy. Perhaps he is your enemy because he thinks you are a savage. Or perhaps he is afraid of you because he feels that you are afraid of him. And perhaps if he believed you are capable of loving him he would no longer be your enemy.
Thomas Merton

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I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.
Vincent Willem Van Gogh

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We either make ourselves happy or we make ourselves miserable. The amount of work is the same.
Carlos Castaneda

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To see a man beaten not by a better opponent, but by himself is a tragedy.

Cus D'amato

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Yes, it looks bleak. But you are still alive now. You are alive with all the others, in this present moment. And because the truth is speaking in the work, it unlocks the heart. And there’s such a feeling and experience of adventure. It’s like a trumpet call to a great adventure. In all great adventures there comes a time when the little band of heroes feels totally outnumbered and bleak, like Frodo in Lord of the Rings or Pilgrim in Pilgrim’s Progress. You learn to say, “It looks bleak. Big deal, it looks bleak.”
Joanna Macy

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To seek God is the most glorious and gratifying of all activities. To find God is perforce a slow and gradual process. To seek and to find God means liberation; it means freedom from your inner chains. In order to find God, you must go, as we say, "on the path.”
Eva Pierrakos

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Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Ghandi

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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Lao Tzu

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Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of the man at that time.
Marcus Aurelius

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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.
M. F. K. Fisher

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Shame is that intrinsic meter of our own heart to tell us that we have failed to follow our own moral compass.
LaDawnna Burnett

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What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It’s close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go in vertically.
Elie Wiesel

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One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it’s like to be a child.
Randall Jarrell

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Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.
Bob Marley

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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

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I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.    

Mohandas K. Gandhi

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So few grains of happiness measured against all the dark and still the scales balance. 

Jane Hirshfield

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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.     

C.S. Lewis

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They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.  

Emily Dickinson

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When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.   

Abraham Lincoln

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Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Edwin Way Teale

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The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.  

Rita Mae Brown

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Everyone has a strategy until you get punched in the face.       

Mike Tyson

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There’s not a human being alive who doesn’t want—in any conversation, encounter, experience with another human being—to feel like they matter. And you can resolve any issue if you could just get to what it is that they want—they want to be heard. And they want to know that what they said to you meant something. Most people go their entire lives and nobody ever really wants the answer to, ‘How are you? Tell me about yourself.’
Oprah Winfrey

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.  

Galileo Galilei

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Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.        

Elbert Hubbard

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Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.     

Edward Everett Hale

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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.

Barnett Cocks

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I will not play at tug o' war…I'd rather play at hug o' war, where everyone hugs instead of tugs. 

Shel Silverstein

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.     

Alan Kay

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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.    

Turkish proverb

The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.    

Chinese proverb

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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead.     

Robert Brault

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It is not only through our actions that we can give life meaning — insofar as we can answer life’s specific questions responsibly — we can fulfill the demands of existence not only as active agents but also as loving human beings: in our loving dedication to the beautiful, the great, the good. Should I perhaps try to explain for you with some hackneyed phrase how and why experiencing beauty can make life meaningful? I prefer to confine myself to the following thought experiment: imagine that you are sitting in a concert hall and listening to your favorite symphony, and your favorite bars of the symphony resound in your ears, and you are so moved by the music that it sends shivers down your spine; and now imagine that it would be possible (something that is psychologically so impossible) for someone to ask you in this moment whether your life has meaning. I believe you would agree with me if I declared that in this case you would only be able to give one answer, and it would go something like: “It would have been worth it to have lived for this moment alone!"  

Viktor Frankl

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Would you indeed, get rid of all wars? Then let women conduct the next war.

Khalil Gibran

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Even if we are hardened, there are means by which we can recover, correct ourselves, and become again what we should have been but never were. To become again that which we never were. 

Michel Foucault

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Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold. Don’t dance in glass slippers, crystal carving up your toes -- be a barefoot Amazon instead, for those shoes will surely shatter on your feet... Learn to speak with both your mind and heart. For the ground beneath will hold you, dear -- know that you are free. And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

Sarah McMane

Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember ... you are the medicine.

María Sabina

If you always put limits on everything you do - physical or anything else - it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Bruce Lee

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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