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"Mindfulness may help you gain insight into your role in conflicts with others, it won't single-highhandedly help you resolve them."
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"Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all."

"The universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. There is in truth no past, only a memory of the past. Blink your eyes, and the world you see next did not exist when you closed them. Therefore, the only appropriate state of the mind is surprise. The only appropriate state of the heart is joy. The sky you see now, you have never seen before. The perfect moment is now. Be glad of it."

"When attachment does not occur when someone gives flowers and no abhorrence occurs when someone throws stones, that is considered equanimity."

"When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence."

"Do not allow your thoughts to condemn you."

"Do not imprison your mind with negative thoughts."

"Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second."

"Mindfulness is that space where you are in touch with life-experience and you are brightly aware."

"The mind's nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say 'Why did you come at this wrong time?' And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle."

"Let the moment be memorable."
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"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."


"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."


"Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people."


"I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all."


"When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently."


"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it."


"The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people. Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others."


"Just as a prism refracts light differently when you change its angle, each experience of love illuminates love in new ways, drawing from an infinite palette of patterns and hues."


"Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties, it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it."


"When we contemplate the miracle of embodied life, we begin to partner with our bodies in a kinder way."
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