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Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

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Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
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In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
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The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.
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The person who betrayed you is sunning themselves on a beach in Hawaii and you’re knotted up in hatred. Who is suffering?
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You need a community. They remind you when you forget, and you remind them when they forget.
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To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.
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When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.
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Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.
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If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.
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Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.
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The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.
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Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.
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May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.
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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them to the transformative power of our heart.
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