When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

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Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free.

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Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

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In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

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You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

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Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there.

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There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.

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People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

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Today is the most important day of our lives.

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We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.

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