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No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

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What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of our path, if it is music, if it is conversation we must follow what brings us alive.
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Everything has a beginning and an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well…In life we cannot avoid change, we cannot avoid loss. Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.
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The quieting of our mind is a political act.
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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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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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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.
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Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched.
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We each need to make our lion’s roar – to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears – to declare our right to awaken.
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The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
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May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
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In the end, forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of our heart.
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When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.
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Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
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The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
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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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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner’s mind.
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Live in joy, luminosity, and peace even among the troubles of the world. Remember who you are.
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Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
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The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can’t close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.
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If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
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Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
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True love is not for the faint-hearted.
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The grief we carry is part of the grief of the world. Hold it gently. Let it be honored. You do not have to keep it in anymore. You can let go into the heart of compassion; you can weep.
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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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