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When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are.

Brenda Shoshanna

The more we give attention to that which is upsetting, the more strength it has to rule our lives.
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Lived More Rule Strength
This is how we know we are in a loving relationship. We are blooming, and the one we love is blooming as well.
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Blooming Love Loving Relationship
When we sit, we open our own treasure house. Rather than do this, however, most of us first seek to find the treasures another person can provide.
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House Relationship Treasure
Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you’ll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.
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Amazed Honest Precious Simple
our joy and satisfaction comes from doing each action with a whole heart and mind. Results and consequences then take care of themselves. When you are not absorbed by concern for outcomes, how much anxiety can you ever have?
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Absorb Attention Result Themselves
If one’s sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost.
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Eye Lost Self Sense
What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.
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Attention Become Expand Pay
Change is the very basis of our life, not to be fought, to be welcomed and tasted, to be seen for the gift it truly is.
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Bases Change Lives Our
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
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Attachment Love Nature
When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are.
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Love Relationship Space
The sense that my world is stable and stationary, that change will never come and that all will go on continuously as it is, is the nature of all delusion.
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Change Goes Nature
Don’t become bitter and spend all your time focusing on that which the person is not able to provide.
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Focusing Person Provide Time
A time of uncertainty, of not knowing exactly where we’re headed, or what kind of choice to make is a Zen moment.
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Choices Knowing Time
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
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Action Future Past
From the Zen view all beings are in the grip of the three poisons, greed, anger and delusion (ignorance).
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Anger Ignorance Views
Now today, moment by moment, realize that each person and event that happens is life for you. Life is not somewhere else. See how fully you can accept the life that presents itself to you now.
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Else Events Somewhere Today

When we are in a truly loving relationship, we receive the gift of being known and accepted. We become more, not less, of who we are.

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