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- When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
- That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the…
- Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those…
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is…
- The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're…
- Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.
- By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
- The Buddha taught that flexibility and openness bring strength and that running from groundlessness weakens us and brings pain. But do we understand that becoming…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the…
- Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from…
- Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and…
- Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
- As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
- There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?
- Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you’re…
- Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you…
- Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.
- Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can…
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
- We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is…
- Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the…
- It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even…
- Instead of making others right or wrong, or bottling up right and wrong in ourselves, there's a middle way, a very powerful middle way...... Could…
- Nothing ever goes away until it teaches as what we need to know...
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