The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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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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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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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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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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