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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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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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So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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