One powerful way to improve our relationships is to learn to recognize and drop our own unhelpful projections. We need to do this so we can see the other person more clearly, and accept them more fully as they are. In other words, healthy relationships involve an element of acceptance, or what we can call patience.

17th Karmapa

from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out

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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:

• Finding our nobility of heart
• Loving Responsibility
• Difference without Division
• Our relationship to the material world
• Open-minded
• There are no fixed starting points
• Just Love
• My trust is a gift
• Our life is vast
• Making healthy relationships possible
• Authentic love
• Interdependent reality
• Boxing Love with Our Expectations
• We truly have everything we need already
• Look what he did
• Balanced Life
• Who are you
• Let the moon be the keeper of my love
• Distinguishing between wants and needs
• Breaking barriers