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If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren’t mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them.

Bo Lozoff

This is the first step toward understanding the process of real, lasting change: simply knowing with certainty that you can do whatever you need to do.
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Change Lasting Real Responsibility
If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren’t mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them.
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Compassion Heart Spiritual
I could characterize nearly any spiritual practice as simply this: identify and quit, identify and quit, identify and quit. Identify the myriad forms of limitation and delusion we place upon ourselves, and muster the courage to quit each one.
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Eye Practice Spiritual
Little by little, deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.
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Already Diamond Little Open Shines
The cause of all our personal problems and nearly all the problems of the world can be summed up in a single sentence.
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Causes Problem World
Who can ever understand exactly why or how it comes down as it does? The bottom line is, here we are. Whatever, wherever we are, this is what we’ve got. It’s up to us whether we do it as easy time or hard time.
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Bottom Come Down Exactly Line Whether
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
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Gaps Hatred Self
You may study with the highest teachers, but you will find no one but yourself teaching you. You may travel the world over, yet find nothing but yourself, reflected the world over.
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Heart Teacher Teaching
Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other in peace…and care properly for this planet we all share.
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Bring Human Kindness Planet Share Simple
We merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are – as soon as we stop pretending we’re small or unholy.
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Merely Need Open Pretending Small Unholy
We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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Degrees Grace Light
So if you now find yourself in a cell, take heart that of all the teachers in the world, out of all the places in the world, you still have with you the only ultimate ingredient of your journey: yourself.
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Ingridient Joueny Place Teacher Yourself
Do you want a world with . . . more joy and happiness? Then find your own joy and happiness and contribute to the joy and happiness of others.
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Contribute Happiness Joy Want World
We’re all doing time. As soon as we get born, we find ourselves assigned to one little body, one set of desires and fears, one family, city, state, country, and planet.
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Cities Country Hard Times
We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.
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Good Human Nature Journey Laugh Pick
This understanding has a dual edge: On the one hand it increases your confidence and dignity. On the other hand, it places full responsibility on you if you fail to make the change you set out to make. But this is a good thing, not a guilt trip.
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Change Confidence Edge Make Responsibility Understanding

If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren’t mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them.

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If I am practicing spiritual poverty, which says that I own nothing, then the problems aren’t mine and neither are the energy and compassion pouring through my heart to try to solve them.

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