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- Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.
- 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…
- 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…
- When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let them go, we…
- 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.
- Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in…
- The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to…
- 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…
- Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
- 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…
- 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…
- Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
- Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous…
- Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to…
- I dedicate the merit of the occasion to all beings. This gesture of universal friendship has been likened to a drop of fresh spring water.…
- We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to…
- The Buddha’s principal message that day was that holding on to anything blocks wisdom. Any conclusion that we draw must be let go. The only…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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