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We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.
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What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.
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Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)
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Be just the way you have always been, with this difference: do not believe any of it, and pay close attention to all of it.
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If you want to know what you were conditioned to believe as a child, look at how you treat yourself now.
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Going in the wrong direction but making really good time.
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Fear forces us to spend our lives dealing with it, ostensibly to overcome it. But that is a trick. Only fear (the illusion of separation) would want us to work to be unafraid, precisely because it is not possible for a separate self to be unafraid!
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Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.
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It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.