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- For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such…
- Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the…
- The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more…
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather…
- When you refrain from habitual thoughts and behavior, the uncomfortable feelings will still be there. They don’t magically disappear. Over the years, I’ve come to…
- We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us…
- Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I…
- Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern…
- The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and…
- It is a commitment to respect whatever life brings that we develop wholehearted determination to use discomfort as an opportunity for awakening, rather than trying…
- No one ever tells us to stop running away from fear...the advice we usually get is to sweeten it up, smooth it over, take a…
- To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to…
- Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you…
- Be grateful to everyone" is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected... If we were to make a list of…
- 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…
- For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To…
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