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Grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change,
the courage to change
the things I can,
and the wisdom
to know the difference.

—Serenity prayer

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That's how it goes,
everybody knows.

—Leonard Cohen

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The truth is an offense,
but not a sin.

—Bob Marley

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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That which you are seeking
is causing you to seek.

—Zen saying

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Wherever you go
there you are.

—Jon Kabat-Zinn

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This is the life you have.

—Living Colour

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Your projects will go unfinished.

—Chögyam Trungpa

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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.

—Toni Morrison

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Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace within the storm.

—Anonymous

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And if nothing can be done
We'll make the best of what's around

—Dave Matthews

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Poem: Allow

Poem: The Man Watching

Poem: In the Nursing Home

Poem: Mother’s Day

Poem: Democracy

Tigers above, tigers below

Radical acceptance practice

The World We Have

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