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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
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There is no other day. All days are present now. This moment contains all moments.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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One of my greatest lessons at this point in my life is that there is no there. There's only here.
I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.
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Only awareness of your shadow qualities can help you to find an appropriate place for your unredeemed darkness and thereby create a more satisfying experience.