It can be very difficult to accept that the source of what we like or do not like arises in our mind. When we get our heads stuck in the clouds – pretty clouds, ugly clouds – we cannot see that they are impermanent, that they have a life of their own, and that they will pass on, if we let them.

Mingyur Rinpoche

from the book In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying

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• Accepting whatever happens
• Within each one of us
• Boundless reality
• Nothing endures but change
• Vast and intimate
• Great news
• It’s how we relate to emotions
• Change yourself
• Upholding the lineage
• Anywhere, anytime
• Stay with what is
• Meditative awareness
• Beyond habitual patterns
• 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