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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

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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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
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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Hard Time Ourselves Reaction Suffering
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
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
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Yourself
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Fear Open Ourselves Resistance
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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Choice Embrace Human Life Ourselves Situation Suffering
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Build Delight Difficult Experience Strength Yourself
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Care Feeling Hope Irritation Listening Reminder
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Need Spiritual Teaching Wisdom
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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Certain Chaos Learning Path Spiritual Stick
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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Call Ego Life Noble Resistance Suffering Truth
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Fall Hard Time Healing Kind Perspective
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Awake Challenge Experience Open Path Spiritual

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