All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. To have even a few seconds of doubt about the solidity and absolute truth of our own opinions, just to begin to see that we do have opinions, introduces us to the possibility of egolessness. We don’t have to make these opinions go away, and we don’t have to criticize ourselves for having them. We could just notice what we say to ourselves and see how so much of it is just our particular take on reality, which may or may not be shared by other people.

Pema Chödron

from the book When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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• Cultivating Peace
• Disappointment
• Undoing of old ways of seeing
• Moving closer to the truth
• The perfect teacher
• The courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently
• Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit
• Awakening is essential
• Being with us
• The path of true awakening
• Finding out what is true
• Flooding the world with your kindness
• Negativity begets negativity
• Exposing ourselves to annihilation
• Only in our own experience
• Become Familiar with Fear
• Until we got it
• Don’t Set Out to Save the World
• Fully alive