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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
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Biology Nervous Ourselves Response Safety Science Smile
Telling each other the truth and being who we are, and having space for the other person’s vulnerability in being who they are, allows us to move in a kind of dance together that’s very fluid and graceful.
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Dance Each Grace Kind Person Space Togetherness Truth Vulnerable
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
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Action Balance Clarity Compassionate Feeling Life Ourselves Responsibility
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.
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Carry Feeling Path Travel
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Acceptance Boundary Freedom Ourselves
Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.
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Fear Flaw Live Moments Myself Person Prison Sacrifice Stop
We’re so used to presenting ourselves and getting approval according to our achievements that it’s difficult to be authentic and trust that we’ll be accepted just as we are.
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Acceptance Achievement Authentic Difficult Present Self Love
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
The trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach. The path to “the sweetness of belonging,” is acceptance – acceptance of ourselves and acceptance of others without judgment.
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Acceptance Judgement Ourselves Reach Sweet Worth
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path Yourself

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

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