There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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