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Acceptance & transformation

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The Day That Changed Mark Nepo's Life Forever | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

Twenty-six years ago, poet Mark Nepo discovered a lump on the back of his head, but he didn't get it checked out until a friend urged him to see a doctor. Find out why Mark says there was no way to go back to the life he had been living after that medical visit.

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F**k It: Be at Peace with Life, Just as It Is

Is there a gap between how you’d like things to be and how they are? Most likely there is, and it hurts. It may be a small gap or a freaking enormous ravine, but that gap is, in fact, probably the primary cause of pain and unhappiness for most people.

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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

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FindCenterIf the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

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A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times

When the path ahead is dark, how can we keep from stumbling? How do we make our way with courage and dignity? “Inside each of us is an eternal light that I call ‘the One Who Knows,’ ” writes Jack Kornfield.

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Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

While most of us have moments of loving freely and openly, it is often hard to sustain this where it matters most--in our intimate relationships.

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What Cancer Taught Poet Mark Nepo | SuperSoul Sunday | Oprah Winfrey Network

After three years, two cycles of cancer and an aggressive series of chemotherapy, poet Mark Nepo's body was weak and broken. Still, he could feel his spirit growing stronger, his perspective shifting and his heart opening wider.

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FindCenterThe first step to change . . . is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child.

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The Way of Fuck It: Small book. Big Wisdom.

With his first (and bestselling) book, 'F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way', John C. Parkin established that saying 'Fuck It' was a spiritual act: helping us let go and realise that things don't matter so much after all.

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A Rabbi’s Guide on Making Amends and Letting Those Grudges Go

Judaism offers a series of ideas and guidelines for how to cope with offense and foster forgiveness. On Yom Kippur, it’s traditional to wear white, not only because white shows the slightest stain, but to remind us of the shrouds in which we will one day be buried.

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