“ If you’re invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet. ”
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“ Without giving up hope – that there’s something better to be, that that’s someone better to be – we will never relax with where we are or who we are. ”
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“ Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. ”
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“ Whether we’re seeking inner peace or global peace or a combination of the two, the way to experience it is to build on the foundation of unconditional openness to all that arises. ”
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“ Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened. ”
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“ If it weren’t for my mind, my meditation would be excellent. ”
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“ The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently. ”
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“ Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be — we will never relax with where we are or who we are. ”
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“ The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. ”
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“ Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. ”
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“ It’s helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. ”
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“ Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life. ”
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“ The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort. ”
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“ Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time. ”
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“ If we can train ourselves through meditation to be more open and more accepting toward the wild arc of our experience, if we can lean into the difficulties of life and the ride of our minds, we can become more settled and relaxed amid whatever life brings us. ”
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“ “Be grateful to everyone” means that all situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best. ”
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“ When we are present and awake, emotions have a short lifespan, but when we’re unconscious, they can last for years. ”
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“ All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. ”
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“ Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. ”
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“ While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. ”
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“ We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are. ”
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“ It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens. ”
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“ The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment. ”
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