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We can always begin again.
What we seek is what we are.
How well we have learned to let go
True love is not for the faint-hearted.
Life without forgiveness is unbearable.
There is no higher happiness than peace.
Every individual has a unique contribution.
The waves do keep coming, so learn to surf.
The quieting of our mind is a political act.
The trouble is that you think you have time.
As we step out of the way new things are born.
Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.
May you know the beauty of your own true nature.
Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind?
It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.
Equanimity arises when we accept the way things are.
It is the place of feeling that binds us or frees us.
Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.
Indifference is a misguided way of defending ourselves.
Samadhi doesn’t just come of itself; it takes practice.
Nobody knows why they were born or where they come from.
Every individual in the world has a unique contribution.
Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
Those who are Awake live in a state of constant amazement.
Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.
The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
You have to accept the way things are before you can move on.
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.
The task is not to perfect yourself, it's to perfect your love.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
In the crystal of the awakened consciousness, one facet is love.
The unawakened mind tends to make war against the way things are.
Use whatever has come to awaken patience, understanding, and love.
Buddhist teachings are not a religion, they are a science of mind.
Buddhists were actually the first cognitive-behavioral therapists.
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.
Be mindful of intention. Intention is the seed that creates our future.
The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are.
There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.
Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.
The awakened heart and mind can be experienced as clarity itself, pure knowing.
The path of awakening begins with a step the Buddha called right understanding.
We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.
To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life