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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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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.
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Company Connection Fact Freedom Path Spiritual
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Attention Belief Ourselves Suffering Truth
Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.
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Awake Challenge Compassionate Face Path People
Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.
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Compassionate Relax Wisdom
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.
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Encounter Path 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
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
Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.
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Believe Effort Initiate Moments Ourselves Pain Wrong
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
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Future Help Meditation Moments Present Thinking
Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.
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Acceptance Experience Live Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual Willing
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
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
The two wings of mindfulness and kindness will begin to open the heart to more connection with our world.
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Connection Kindness Mindset Ourselves Wings World

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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