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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.

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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Children Love Self Treat Yourself
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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Complaint Emotional Fortune Goodness Inspirational Ordinary Rejoice World
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Curiosity Fear Greatness Yourself
Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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Difficult Experience Need Run Transformation Yourself
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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Certain Chaos Learning Path Spiritual Stick
Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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Angry Disappoint Embarrassment Feeling Hold Irritation Jealous Moments Ourselves Teaching
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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Choice Circumstance Hard Kind Life Open Scare
Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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Brave Courage Discover Human Inspirational Motivational Spirit Wait
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Global Heart Human Implication Peace Start War
I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Acceptance Important Myself Right Thinking
It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Suffering Truth Yourself
There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Development Important Oneself Path Spiritual

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