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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…
- Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,…
- Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
- Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if…
- When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize…
- Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as…
- Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness…
- One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to…
- We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
- Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
- Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
- Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement,…
- The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that…
- Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an…
- Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
- In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest
- You could begin to notice whenever you find yourself blaming others or justifying yourself. If you spent the rest of your life just noticing that…
- Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that…
- The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality...
- Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is…
- Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or…
- 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…
- When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is…
- 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…
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