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"Equanimity can be hard to talk about."
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"Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind."

"By choosing to have a calm response to what seems negative you bring clarity and balance to your message."

"When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but you can find the calmest spot within them."

"I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger."

"There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind."

"When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil."

"I don't do hurry I don't do worry."

"Equanimity can be hard to talk about."
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"With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be."


"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."


"The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known-even by ourselves."


"It's tough to have an authentic relationship with awe in the age of awesome, a word that has become so overused as to be drained of its meaning."


"Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we're adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere."


"In one of the verses of Lal Ded, or Lalla, a fourteenth-century mystic from Kashmir, Lalla says: "At the end of a crazy-moon night the love of God rose. I said "It's me, Lalla."It's me, Lalla, becomes "It's me whoever you are, proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential. No one can take that leap for us; and no one has to. This is our journey of faith."


"The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn't know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud."
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