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"The basic creative energy of life-life force-bubbles up and courses through all of existence. It can be experienced as open, free, unburdened, full of possibility, energizing. Or this very same energy can be experienced as petty, narrow, stuck, caught...Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept-what opens up your world-and what to reject-what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery."
Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape (pg 21&23)