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Whatever you encounter, may that be part of the path.

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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
Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.
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Happiness Lying Missing Present
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
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Change Different Feeling Happiness Life Live Wait
When we open to love, we become love.
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Inspirational Love Open Spiritual
Observing desire without acting on it enlarges our freedom to choose how we live.
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Act Choice Desire Freedom Live
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
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
Emotions are the interaction of thoughts and of sensations in the body.
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Body Emotion InterAction Thinking
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
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
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
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Acceptance Boundary Freedom Ourselves
With mindfulness training we are able to recognize when we get lost in our mental dramas, and bring a kind and nonreactive presence to the feelings that accompany them.
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Accompany Drama Feeling Kind Mindset Presence Recognition Training
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
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering

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