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You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.
The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.
No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.
What would you do if you knew that every good thing in your life depended on your getting enough rest? Because it does.
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
Don't expect the future to look like the past. Clear away expectations, and let yourself picture a wild, grand new world.
Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.
To really boost your sense of self-efficacy, think of ways you could modify your usual tasks to suit your personal style.
Any moment you spend attacking yourself is a moment away from your higher purpose and your power to love. Don't go there.
Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.
Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?
There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.
Not having time or energy for weight loss makes no sense. Does it take more time or energy to eat fish than prime rib? No.
Don’t worry that you’ve wasted time. Each moment -- no matter how frozen or confused -- was a useful and necessary lesson.
As any good Buddhist will tell you, the only way to find permanent joy is by embracing the fact that nothing is permanent.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
From a place of stillness, openness, forgiveness and acceptance you can renew your commitment to any eating plan you like.
The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.
I was learning to track rhinoceroses in Africa and tracked right up on an animal that really I thought was going to kill me.
Conflict in close relationships is not only inevitable, it's essential. Intimacy connects people who are inevitably different.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
The holy days are the best times to focus on real enthusiasm, the inner source that lightens and sanctifies our lives all year.
If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.
Instead of hiding your loneliness, bring it into the light. Honor it. Treat it. Heal it. You'll find that it returns the favor.
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Everything always passes, and everything is already okay. Stay in the place where you can see that, and nothing will resist you.
Use anything you can think of to understand and be understood, and you'll discover the creativity that connects you with others.
Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
If you’re doing something you love with people you love in a place you love, you are going to create something of value to the world.
During the times we think we’re being “unproductive,” the seeds of new worlds are germinating within us, and they need peace to grow.
If you're feeling intransigently ambivalent, it might pay to formally accept what's already happening - that is, decide not to decide.
The only map of your right life is written on your soul at its most peaceful, and the only sure compass is your heart at its most open.
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.
I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past...but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory.
Even if you can be the world's best at one thing, you'll be the world's worst at something else. Supermodels make pathetic sumo wrestlers.
I now believe that bêtes noires usually attack because we're thwarting our own destinies. Calming the beast turns us toward our best lives.
If we're stuck with having expectations, there's a very good reason to embrace positive ones: it's that we often create what we anticipate.
Whoever said that love is blind was dead wrong. Love is the only thing on this earth that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.
Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
True freedom starts with absolute honesty. The moment you call a problem by its real name, you’re already learning how to make it less harmful.
Many people think passion is a fuzzy feeling that makes taking action effortless. In fact, it's the gritty courage and tenacity to forge onward.