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Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are.
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Believe Jobs Spiritual
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
Let the sky outside awake a sky inside your mind.
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Awake Mind Sky
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent.
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Gratitude Intelligent Real
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.
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Accomplishment Essence Mind
How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.
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Disheartened Dynamics Lawa Trusting
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
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Attachment Learning Life
Even though the meditator may leave the meditation, the meditation will not leave the meditator.
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Leave May Meditation
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being.
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Meditation Self Spiritual
As we progress in it, the process reveals itself as wonderfully interdependent: We, from our side, try continually to generate devotion.
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Continually Devotion Generate Interdependent Process Progress
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.
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Action Consequences Real Spirituality
Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death?
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Death Mirror Thinking
When we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us.
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Death Encouragement Spiritual

Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.

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