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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Fall Hard Time Healing Kind Perspective
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
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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Complaint Emotional Fortune Goodness Inspirational Ordinary Rejoice World
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
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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Call Ego Life Noble Resistance Suffering Truth
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Achievement Best Moments Perfection Worry Yourself
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Compassionate Medicine Personal Poison Suffering Yourself
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Crazy Drive Heart Learning Open Ourselves People Teacher
It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Suffering Truth Yourself
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself
If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Heart Inspirational Yourself
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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Global Heart Human Implication Peace Start War
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Help Order Ourselves Work
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Yourself
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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Awake Life Limitation Person Stand Thinking Vehicle Yourself
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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