The avoidance of our inner demons — our fears of change and death, our rage and jealousy — only imbues these adversaries with greater power. The more we run away, the less chance we have of escaping. We must face suffering, move into it; only then can we become free from it.
Mingyur Rinpoche
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Further quotes from the book In Love with the World :
- Fundamentally pure and good
- Replace longing with love
- The masks that hide our true selves
- The chattering voice in our heads
- Only with recognition
- Dying is rebirth
- Ego-grasping death comes before life
- Spacious awareness
- Identifying the sickness for ourselves
- Stretching a bit further
- Short moments, many times
- Awareness contains impermanence
- The source of what we like or do not like
- Reverse activity
- Accepting whatever happens
- Within each one of us
- Boundless reality
- Nothing endures but change
- Vast and intimate