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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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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Comfortable Fear Learning Moments Stay Willing
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Care Feeling Hope Irritation Listening Reminder
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Compassionate Path Reality Spiritual Start Suffering Ugly Yourself
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Certain Death Important Philosophy Time
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Best Hard Time Situation Teaching Tough Yourself
Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Moments Time Unique
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Choice Control Person Moments Peace Yourself
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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Angry Disappoint Embarrassment Feeling Hold Irritation Jealous Moments Ourselves Teaching
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Alive Awake Death Experience Human Live Man Moments Willing
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Brave Courage Fear Inspirational People Thinking
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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Choice Embrace Human Life Ourselves Situation Suffering
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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Build Delight Difficult Experience Strength Yourself
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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Acceptance Important Myself Right Thinking

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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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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