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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

Once you create a self-justifying storyline, your emotional entrapment within it quadruples.

The idea of karma is that you continually get the teaching that you need to open your heart.

As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.

By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.

If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.

When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.

All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult, if not impossible, to genuinely feel it for others.

Tonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."

Inner #‎ peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your #‎ emotions

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

There's a reason you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom, basic intelligence, and basic goodness.

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