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There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

When our weaknesses affect health and friendship, we are very much aware of their existence.

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

Love is an emotional feeling on a human level and a faith experience on a supernatural level.

As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

Every time I say 'no' to a small temptation, I strengthen my will to say 'no' to a greater one.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

Hope grows in us, despite our moments of darkness, regardless of our regular bouts of depression.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

I cannot bring Christ to my neighbor and to the world if I have not first given him to my family.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

The nature of faith, I think, is based so much on one's capacity for hope for those whom you love.

No creature, not even the most exalted angel, can understand God or have perfect knowledge of Him.

Jesus feels my sorrow greater than I, for his love is infinite, and he suffers in an infinite way.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

Men climb mountains, scale heights, venture into the unexplored to prove to other men it can be done.

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

June is the time for being in the world in new ways, for throwing off the cold and dark spots of life.

We are living in a period of commerical globalization. What we really need is spiritual globalization.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Beware the religion that turns you against another one. It's unlikely that it's really religion at all.

The spiritual response is too often a simplistic one: we abandon God or we blame God for abandoning us.

God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

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