"What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself."
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"When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda."
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"Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared."
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"Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made."
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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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"Trying to run away is never the answer to being a fully human. Running away from the immediacy of our experience is like preferring death to life."
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"Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly."
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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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"There are many changes in the weather of a day."
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"Difficult people are the greatest teachers."
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"Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both."
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"For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes."
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"Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."
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"Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it."
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"Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to it. One is to blame others. Lay it all on somebody else; drive all blames into everyone else. The other alternative is to feel guilty about our rage and blame ourselves."
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"Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well."
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"When we struggle agains our energy we reject the source of wisdom. Anger without the fixation is none other than clear-seeing wisdom. Pride without fixation is experienced as equanimity. The energy of passion when it's free of grasping is wisdom that sees all the angles."
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"Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom."
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"To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death."
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"My moods are continuously shifting like the weather."
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