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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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Nothing is wrong – whatever is happening is just “real life.”
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Life Perspective Philosophy Reality Wrong
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
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Body Emotion InterAction Thinking
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
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Acceptance Discover Path Perfection Sacred Strive
Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.
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Big Freedom Live Old Pattern Tragedy
There are some things we can’t choose, but in being present we can choose how we want to relate to them.
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Choice Present Relate
The most powerful healing arises from the simple intention to love the life within you, unconditionally, with as much tenderness and presence as possible.
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We can find true refuge within our own hearts and minds-right here, right now, in the midst of our moment-to-moment lives.
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Heart Live Mindset Moments Ourselves True
Even a few moments of offering loving kindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.
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Heart Kindness Love Moments Purity Yourself
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Attention Expression Love Pay
By regarding ourselves with kindness, we begin to dissolve the identity of an isolated, deficient self. This creates the grounds for including others in an unconditionally loving heart.
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Beginning Creation Heart Kindness Love
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
Through the sacred art of pausing, we develop the capacity to stop hiding, to stop running away from our experience. We begin to trust in our natural intelligence, in our naturally wise heart, in our capacity to open to whatever arises.
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Arise Art Capacity Development Experience Natural Ourselves Sacred
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
As we free ourselves from the suffering of ‘something is wrong with me, ‘we trust and express the fullness of who we are.’
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Expression Freedom Suffering Trust Wrong
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path Yourself
Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
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Alive Awake Body Discover Ourselves World
Self-judgment continues to arise – it’s a strong habit – but the fact that I made a conscious commitment to recognize it has helped me stop feeding the story of being unworthy.
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Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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Compassionate Relax Wisdom
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
Extend an act of kindness each day. No one has to know. It can be a smile, reassuring words, a small favor – without expecting something in return.
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Act Expectation Kindness Oneself Return
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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Different Fear Imperfection Life Moments Wrong

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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