Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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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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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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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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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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