“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
“You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.”
— Ann Brashares, book My Name is Memory
Source: My Name Is Memory
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