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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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