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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.

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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Choice Control Person Moments Peace Yourself
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Connection Greatness Joy Obstacle Ourselves
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
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Help Order Ourselves Work
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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Arrive Need Problem Run Teaching
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Joy Life Lose Pain Patience Perspective Reaction Yourself
All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Best Hard Time Situation Teaching Tough Yourself
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Awake Challenge Experience Open Path Spiritual
Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Friendship Obstacle Ourselves Stuck Teaching
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Future Moments Open Writing
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
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Fear Open Ourselves Resistance
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Alive Awake Death Experience Human Live Man Moments Willing
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love 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
Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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Awake Life Limitation Person Stand Thinking Vehicle Yourself

Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.

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