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Be patient with those appear to be electronically elsewhere with their thumbs and ears out of the present moment, as being fully present in any moment with the things and people before your face requires great discipline and desire, and I don't know how many people exercise it, and how often. The electronic devices just make the human tendency more evident. On the other hand, to expand one's concern directly and constantly with people elsewhere may be an expression of divine desire.

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Meanwhile, it would be nice to have a nicewhile.

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Let us not speak of losing control of people, but of losing our intervening love for them. Helping others do right is not a matter of compulsion and extortion, but of compassion and confidence; at once staying close and letting go.

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If you are feeling incredibly altruistic, you will care about what people think, because it reflects the nature of their suffering, and you will know how to show them compassion.

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In maturing, many humans lose their innocence, but none lose their vulnerability.

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maybe less attention to what you weigh and more to helping others on their way; less attention to what you eat and more to who and how you nourish

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and try living in the present, really the present, speaking and thinking only of and to the persons directly in front of you

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try living like there's no yesterday; begin by honestly letting go of other people's past mistakes

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imagine Pascal's wager

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Maybe confidence is less a matter of concerning yourself with what others think of you and more a matter of what you think of others; less a matter of how you look as how you see; less a matter of how you feel as how you touch.

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One of the most troublesome hangups is to have hangups about other people's hangups.