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Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

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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
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
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
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
Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Attitude Challenge Determination Freedom Life Suffering
Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
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
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
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Body Emotion InterAction Thinking
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Acceptance Boundary Freedom Ourselves
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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Acceptance Discover Path Perfection Sacred Strive
In a basic way, acceptance is seeing clearly what’s happening and holding it with kindness. This is a radical antidote to the suffering of judging mind.
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Acceptance Basic Hold Judgement Kindness Mindset Way
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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Acceptance Achievement Authentic Difficult Present Self Love
With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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Accompany Drama Feeling Kind Mindset Presence Recognition Training
Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
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Fear Flaw Live Moments Myself Person Prison Sacrifice Stop

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