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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Growth Kindness Ourselves People
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Need Spiritual Teaching Wisdom
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Deep Enough Feeling Oneself Pattern
The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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Best Curiosity Instruction Life Morning Spiritual Wonder Yourself
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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Destruction Expose Ourselves
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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Believe Creation Ourselves Thinking Way World
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
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
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
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
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Yourself
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
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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Acceptance Important Myself Right Thinking
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Joy Life Lose Pain Patience Perspective Reaction Yourself

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.

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