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When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

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The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Acceptance Boundary Freedom Ourselves
Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Heart Kindness Love Moments Purity Yourself
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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Big Freedom Live Old Pattern Tragedy
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Carry Feeling Path Travel
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Act Life Message Revolution Tender Time Treat
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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Beginning Creation Heart Kindness Love
There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
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Choice Present Relate
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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Beautiful End Offering Ourselves Pursuit Spirit
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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Action Balance Clarity Compassionate Feeling Life Ourselves Responsibility
Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
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Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
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Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait
We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Heart Live Mindset Moments Ourselves True
The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Connection Kindness Mindset Ourselves Wings World
When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.
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Different Fear Imperfection Life Moments Wrong

When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

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When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.

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