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While we may never completely eliminate pain from our lives, we can reduce it.

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Forgive Yourself For How You Chose To Survive Forgive yourself for how you chose to survive. Forgive yourself for the desires you judged harshly. Forgive yourself for indulging in things that took up your time but didn't fulfill you. Forgive yourself for declaring yourself as someone you’re not. Forgive yourself for your chosen avenues of negative expressions. Forgive yourself for all the times you didn’t add value to others. Forgive yourself for what you discovered about yourself that you didn’t like. Forgive yourself for whatever ugliness you saw in yourself. Forgive yourself for not correcting what you think you should have. Forgive yourself for the parts you couldn’t respect. Forgive yourself for all these judgments. Forgive yourself for not being able to forgive yourself before. — Emily Maroutian #forgivingYourself #emilyMaroutian #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLL5a8uFj8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When someone rejects you, for whatever reason, that rejection reflects their wants, not your limitations. You are in no way defined by the rejection, or the acceptance of anyone else. Your worth depends on no one. As hard as it can be to see it as such, there is just as big a gift in not connecting with those who don't see your value, as there is in uniting with those who do. — Scott Stabile, Author of BIG LOVE #rejection #whenSomeoneRejectsYou #youAreValuable #mindfulness #meditation #zenwords #scottStabile #biglove https://www.instagram.com/p/ClY8d28u9Xj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Inner Peace Searching for inner peace begins with the recognition of suffering. Creating world peace begins with the recognition of suffering. Recognizing suffering is easy, but it hurts. Whenever you feel hurt or notice someone hurting, there is suffering. Recognizing that is the first step to peace. If you are not feeling or seeing hurt and suffering, then you have found peace. The minute you begin to worry that the peace won’t last, you are back to suffering. The minute you realize that the peace will last, you have fundamentally changed your way of suffering. When you recognize that you can handle your suffering, you have found peace. — Zenmister, from Peace & Suffering #peace #suffering #innerPeace #zenmister #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CnwtPGYux4N/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Listening to People If you practice listening to people, giving them your attention despite your lack of interest you will demonstrate caring even if you don’t feel it. Don’t judge what people say as being worthy of your attention or not. Build you capacity for attention by listening and focus only on listening. When you are distracted by your inattention, go back to listening, hear what they are saying. By listening to people and giving them your attention you learn to care. As you learn to care, listening becomes easier.
— zenmister #listeningToPeople #caring #judgment #mindfulness #zenwords #zenmister https://www.instagram.com/p/CkV2ezEue0a/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Next time you feel agitated because you are falling back into past patterns, remember that simply being aware that you have fallen back into repeating the past is a sign of progress. Self-awareness comes before the Great Leap Forward in your personal transformation. — Yung Pueblo #pastPatterns #selfAwareness #greatLeapForward #progress #personalTransformation #yungPueblo @zen.words #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci71HQtOc3_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Surrender is not weakness. There is great strength in it. Only a surrendered person has spiritual power. Through surrender, you will be free internally of the situation. You may then find that the situation changes without any effort on your part. In any case, you are free. — Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment #kindlequotes #surrender #eckhartTolle #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CltdnVHuBi0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When you keep criticizing your kids, they don't stop loving you. They stop loving themselves. — tinybuddhaofficial #criticism #criticisingYourKids #love #tinybuddhaofficial #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CgO-xAtuLnw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience. Anyone who abandons you is teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet. Anything that angers you is teaching you forgiveness and compassion. Anything that has power over you is teaching you how to take your power back. Anything you hate is for teaching you unconditional love. — Jackson Kiddard #annoyances #patience #anger #forgiveness #compassion #hate #love #jacksonKiddard #zenwords #tinyBuddhaOfficial https://www.instagram.com/p/CgE8-DMO7yS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Resistance This is not to deny that you may encounter intense inner resistance to disidentifying from your pain. This will be the case particularly if you have lived closely identified with your emotional pain-body for most of your life and the whole or a large part of your sense of self is invested in it. What this means is that you have made an unhappy self out of your pain-body and believe that this mind-made fiction is who you are. In that case, unconscious fear of losing your identity will create strong resistance to any disidentification. In other words, you would rather be in pain — be the pain-body — than take a leap into the unknown and risk losing the familiar unhappy self. If this applies to you, observe the resistance within yourself. Observe the attachment to your pain. Be very alert. Observe the peculiar pleasure you derive from being unhappy. Observe the compulsion to talk or think about it. The resistance will cease if you make it conscious. You can then take your attention into the pain-body, stay present as the witness, and so initiate its transmutation. — Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now #eckhartTolle #resistance #disidentification #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/CkGzSHDOb_j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Being Quiet Is Not Being Boring #quietness #beingQuiet #confidence #quietConfidence #mindfulness #zenwords #zenmister There is a lot to be said for quiet confidence. That is what you have when you know that you are not boring.  Being comfortable with being quiet is a great skill that allows you to be engaged where you are, participating fully in conversations, without always directing them. Quiet is not at all the same thing as boring. — zenmister #zenmister #quietness #beingQuiet #confidence #zenwords https://www.instagram.com/p/ChfD4fEOou8/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Feeling Jealous When Your Friends Interact With Others and Without You #jealousy #anger #rejection #socialRejection #zenwords #zenmister To deal with these powerful emotions, breathe with them as you notice them arising. Name the thoughts that are fuelling the jealousy. If your friend is talking to somebody else and you feel jealous, notice the feeling and tell yourself, “I am getting jealous because my friend is talking to somebody else”. Then remind yourself that they are your friend and they like you and that they are not rejecting you because they are talking to other people. Think about how you appreciate your friendship, breathe consciously, and let the jealousy pass before it escalates into anger. — Zenmister https://www.instagram.com/p/ClJS5xwuudh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A Spiritual Person A spiritual person is a patient person. Not trying to be an over-night success. Not even trying to be a “success” by worldly standards. Not trying to take all matters into his own hands, but recognizing that most things are out of his hands. — Dan Pedersen #spiritualPerson #mindfulness #meditation #zenwords #danPedersen https://www.instagram.com/p/CjX_saIuTdC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=