Keeping busy is the hardest part. When I find myself still, clear of thoughts, I can still feel you holding me.

~ Karen Quan

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In the grief that comes with recognizing what happened to us, we often feel there is nowhere to turn for solace…We do things to keep it away, such as becoming overly busy or using drugs or alcohol to numb our feelings. When we are caught up in resistance, we do not feel hope, but when we surrender to our sadness fully, hope trickles in.

~ Maureen Brady

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Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self esteem…But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice…If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.

~ Maureen Brady

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And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.

~ Aleister Crowley

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