"With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose."
"Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else."
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Source: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism by Gary Gach, (p. 285), 2002.
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