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The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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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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Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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When we open to love, we become love.
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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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Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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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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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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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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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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The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
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Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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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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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”

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