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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.

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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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