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“Love is the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.” — M. Scott Peck A long-time acquaintance once shared her story and her daughter’s. His daughter struggled with alcohol from a young age. Like many people battling addiction, she could be funny, intelligent, loving, and difficult all at the same time. When she wanted alcohol and her parents refused to buy it for her, arguments erupted. She would yell. She would accuse.

“ Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world. ” — Dacher Keltner It got to me this morning—that quiet, accumulating weight of the world pressing in before I could quite name why. A headline here, a comment there, voices rising and tightening, each one a little sharper than the last. I could feel it first in my body, a low hum of agitation, like something inside me was bracing for a fight I didn’t want

“With awareness, we can make conscious choices, instead of letting our habitual thoughts and patterns run the show.” – Tamara Levitt,...