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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

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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
Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Feeling One Liner
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
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Compassionate Path Reality Spiritual Start Suffering Ugly Yourself
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
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky 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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Growth Kindness Ourselves People
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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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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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
Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself
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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Crazy Drive Heart Learning Open Ourselves People Teacher
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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

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