"Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions."
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"Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live."
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"Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already."
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"The essence of bravery is being without self-deception."
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"If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught."
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"If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet."
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"Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know."
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"Hell is just resistance to life."
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"We give it up and just look directly with compassion and humor at who we are. Then loneliness is no threat and heartache, no punishment."
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"The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves."
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"If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down."
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"The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness."
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"It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world."
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"Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves."
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"At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance."
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"Softening what is rigid in our hearts."
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"I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening."
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"Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together."
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"As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others - what and whom we can work with, and how - becomes wider."
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"When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal."
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