Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

John Welwood

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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can't relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, and unbiased.

Spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Live every act fully, as if it were your last.

See who is in the subject. The investigation leads you to pure consciousness beyond the subject.

Ramana Maharshi

This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

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