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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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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