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• The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as…
• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the…
• Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
• The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
• When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel…
• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
• As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…
• 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…
• The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
• Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not…
• Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
• Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.…

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