Buddhanature can be summed up in a single word: courage – specifically the courage to be just as we are, right here, right now, with all our doubts and uncertainties.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book Joyful Wisdom: Embracing Change and Finding Freedom

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Further quotes from the book Joyful Wisdom:

• Beginning to identify with pristine awareness
• Embracing the conditions that trouble us
• Meditation isn’t something separate from your life
• Not alone
• A moment of direct pristine awareness
• Looking directly
• Bringing an end to suffering
• The right thing to do
• No greater inspiration
• The possibilities within us
• Importance of understanding our basic situation
• Embracing the conditions that trouble us
• Ability to fly
• Clarity 24/7
• Essence of all our experiences
• Clarity
• Awareness and apprehended objects
• Samsara is an expression of nirvana
• Taking life on the path