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When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We must have the courage to face whatever is present - our pain, our desires, our grief, our loss, our secret hopes our love - everything that moves us most deeply.
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The purpose of spiritual life is not to create some special state of mind. A state of mind is always temporary. The purpose is to work directly with the most primary elements of our body and our mind, to see the ways we get trapped by our fears, desires, and anger, to learn directly our capacity for freedom.
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To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine.
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As we follow a genuine path of practice, our sufferings may seem to increase because we no longer hide from them or from ourselves. When we do not follow the old habits of fantasy and escape, we are left facing the actual problems and contradictions of our life.
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There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.
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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
William James
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July 16, 1945
(age 78)
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