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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
The ego seeks to divide and separate. Spirit seeks to unify and heal.
Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.
You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters
If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.
In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.
Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
We don't experience the world fully unless we are willing to give everything away.
This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.
Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
Every day is a new opportunity to work with what you have inside toward enlightenment.
I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
Sometimes we find that we like our thoughts so much that we don't want to let them go.
We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.
The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be
If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?
This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?