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Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

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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
Mindfulness is a pause – the space between stimulus and response: that’s where choice lies.
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Choice Lying Mindset Response Space
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
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
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
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
Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.
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Attitude Challenge Determination Freedom Life Suffering
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 open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
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
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
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
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
Paying attention is the most basic and profound expression of love.
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Attention Expression Love Pay
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

Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.

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