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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

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Become a witness to your thoughts.
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Sight Thinking Yourself
If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
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Beautiful Heart Mystery Ourselves Poetry Touch World
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
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
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
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
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path Yourself
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Awake Challenge Compassionate Face Path People
But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.
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Act Life Message Revolution Tender Time Treat
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
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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Commitment Fact Habit Judgement Myself Recognition Stop Story Strong
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
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

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

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On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.

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