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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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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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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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