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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.

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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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We can always begin again.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
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