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Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series The Negative Self

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Originally published at How to Crush Without Being Crushed. You can comment here or there.

Whether you’re falling into crush after crush or getting yourself involved in a series of real relationships, there are going to be all sorts of things you’re going to have to deal with.

While crushing, you have to deal with all those random imagined qualities ( Read more... )

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Once you have a starting point, two practices will have to be cultivated in order to take active control of your personal growth.

These attitudes have their roots in classical spiritual practices like Buddhism, but have long been used in more secular arenas ( Read more... )

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High school is a tumultuous time for most people.

Hormones are doing nasty things to our insides and outsides. Social pressures are forcing us to make choices that seem so much bigger than they are. Our very minds consipire to cause us problems trying to ( Read more... )

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As muddled as my mind was for most of high school, some things began to become clear during those years.

First and foremost, the idea that, among my peers, I was actually a worthwhile person began to creep in. That was mostly due to finally shedding the ( Read more... )

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All of our past is viewed through the filter of our present.

That filter is imperfect.

Memories fade and change in unknown ways. They blend together and are reinterpreted every time we visit them. Through repitition, some bits become more vivid than other- ( Read more... )

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In the past thirty years, I’ve died at least three times.

These deaths I speak of are not a physical death. No, they are more of a metaphorical death followed by a glorious return to a whole new life. It is the death of one version of “I” and the beginning of a new “I”.

As ( Read more... )