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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Certain Death Important Philosophy Time
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Curiosity Fear Greatness Yourself
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Build Delight Difficult Experience Strength Yourself
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Future Moments Open Writing
Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Moments Time Unique
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
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Connection Greatness Joy Obstacle Ourselves
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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Destruction Expose Ourselves
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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Change Experience Grasp Meditation Ourselves Pattern Thinking
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Heart Inspirational Yourself
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
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Care Feeling Hope Irritation Listening Reminder
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
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Compassionate Medicine Personal Poison Suffering Yourself

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