Real Peace
Real peace comes from within. Seek not from outside.
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We are the results of what we were and we will be the results of what we are.

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"We judge others by their behavior. We judge ourselves by our intentions."

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind"
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"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."

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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and ntuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
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"Everything you can imagine is real."

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"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

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"We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself."

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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."

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"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."

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"We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path."

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The Mirror
What is in that mirror in front of me?
I cannot tell since I cannot see.
Is it my future? Or is it my past?
It must be my life which I have cast.
Trying to see myself, I open my eyes.
Is what I stare into the truth? Or a distortion from lies?
Concentrating my beliefs, I see reality.
The mirror shows me my world in clarity.
I can finally see that person in the mirror.
All of my thoughts are now more clearer.
Altering that image would mean changing my ways,
Changing all my actions from all of the days.
Seeing through that glass was finally the key.
I now know that it is a picture of me.

self-abuse is the contradiction: Self-injurers hurt themselves in order to feel better. Experts say that when people who self-abuse become emotionally overwhelmed, a self-inflicted injury breaks the tension, allowing them to focus on something other than the emotion they're feeling. "It's a coping technique they develop early in childhood,"

Somewhere along the way, self-abusers are taught that certain emotions, such as anger, sadness or fear, are wrong or bad, so they stifle their feelings. Without an outlet for expressing those emotions, they turn to self-abuse as a release or to punish themselves for having those feelings. For some, the physical pain immediately dulls overwhelming emotions. For others, a deliberate cut or burn summons the sense of being alive. They say the feeling of pain is a welcome change from feeling numb and empty.