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“The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.”

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

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

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“Change your attitude, but remain natural.”

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Always Maintain a Joyful Mind: And Other <i>Lojong</i> Teachings on Awakening Compassion and Fearlessness

“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”

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“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”

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

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

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“The future is completely open, and we are writing it moment to moment.”

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“This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don’t do either of those things.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it’s where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“The experience of a sad and tender heart is what gives birth to fearlessness.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“But there is that feeling. And there’s always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“But the Buddhist teachings are not only about removing the symptoms of suffering, they’re about actually removing the cause, or the root, of suffering.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an enlightened society.”

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How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind (2008)

“Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.”

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