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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.

Bo Lozoff

Human life is very deep, and our modern dominant lifestyle is not.
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Deep Human Life Lifestyle Modern
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
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 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 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
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
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
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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Dawn Eye Shining
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
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
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
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.
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Gaps Hatred Self
Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.
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Honesty Meditation Reality
We’re all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.
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Degrees Grace Light
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

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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