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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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A warrior accepts that we can never know what will happen to us next.
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We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
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Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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Feel the wounded heart that's underneath the addiction, self-loathing, or anger.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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We're not trying to be something we aren't; rather, we're reconnecting with who we are.
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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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Do I prefer to grow up and relate to life directly, or do I choose to live and die in fear?
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.
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In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
Charles Dudley Warner
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July 14, 1936
(age 88)
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