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- When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel we're supposed to…
- As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what…
- Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
- At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I…
- Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of…
- When Things Fall Apartâ€Â and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only…
- It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace…
- 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 still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom…
- Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
- Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness…
- 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…
- Constantly apply cheerfulness, if for no other reason than because you are on this spiritual path. Have a sense of gratitude to everything, even difficult…
- 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…
- We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for…
- Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize…
- Each person's life is like a mandala - a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see,…
- In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever…
- It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.
- Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do…
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