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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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Hate Ignorance Investment Opinion Ourselves War World
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Development Important Oneself Path Spiritual
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself
If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Compassionate Medicine Personal Poison Suffering Yourself
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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Complaint Emotional Fortune Goodness Inspirational Ordinary Rejoice World
The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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