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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Connection Greatness Joy Obstacle Ourselves
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
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
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Achievement Best Moments Perfection Worry 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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Alive Inspirational Magic Restriction Satisfaction
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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Brilliant Bury Jewel Nature Simplicity Temporary True
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Fall Hard Time Healing Kind Perspective
Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Children Love Self Treat Yourself
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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Change Dynamic Enlightenment Ourselves Resistance Situation Struggle Suffering
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
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
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself
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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Yourself

If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.

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