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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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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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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