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If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.
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If we release our fixed ideas about how the world should appear, desires can simply fall away. Our attention is paid to releasing, not wanting to release.
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Reducing our desires and eliminating false neediness is the answer to resolving the nagging inner discomfort that we feel.
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large part of our purpose in life is to be of service to the rest of us.
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Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it.
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Only the wounded healer is able to heal. As long as we think that spiritual leaders need to be perfect, we live in poverty. I have a perfect teacher inside; there is no perfect teacher outside.