Compassionate action involves working with ourselves as much as working with others.
Pema Chodron
It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now.. With its aches and it pleasures.. Is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
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What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.
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The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.
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