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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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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
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
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.
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Existence Imperfection Natural Personal Problem
People don’t behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.
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Angry Conflict Feeling People
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
Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.
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Easy Eyes Love Ourselves Praise Time
Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
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Attention Belief Ourselves Suffering Truth
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
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
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
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Acceptance Boundary Freedom Ourselves
Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.
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Desire End Suffering
The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
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Biology Nervous Ourselves Response Safety Science Smile
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
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
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

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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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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