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Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.

Sogyal Rinpoche

The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble.
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Humble Journey Spiritual
When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don’t actually “become” a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
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Confusion Nature Spiritual
The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping.
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Lying Peace Real
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life.
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Giving Journey Meditation
This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way.
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Compassion Dying Love
How important it is to be skillful and gentle with ourselves, without becoming disheartened or giving up, but trusting the spiritual path and knowing that it has its own laws and its own dynamics.
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Disheartened Dynamics Lawa Trusting
There would be no chance to get to know death at all …if it happened only once.
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Chance Death Happened
Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion.
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Compassion Heart Spontaneous
Tomorrow or the next life – which comes first, we never know.
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Firsts Next Tomorrow
The act of meditation is being spacious.
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Act Meditation Spacious
And if you have the understanding that comes from spiritual practice, then falling is in no way a disaster, but the discovery of an inner refuge.
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Disaster Inner Practice Refuge Spiritual Understanding
So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow.
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Go Inspiring Letting Order
At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying?
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Compassion Death Karma
Why exactly are we so frightened of death that we avoid looking at it altogether? Somewhere, deep down, we know we cannot avoid facing death forever.
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Death Dying Forever
When the view is there, thoughts are seen for what they truly are: fleeting and transparent, and only relative. . . . You do not cling to thoughts and emotions or reject them, but welcome them all within the vast embrace of Rigpa.
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Emotion Relative Transparent Welcome
Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth
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Devotion Real Unbroken

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