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If you don't clearly understand what you are looking for in a teacher or in internal work, you will inevitably accept someone else's agenda as your own. While you may start internal transformative work on the suggestion or advice of another person, at some point your practice has to become a response to your own questions about life and being.

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The importance of conventional life is greatly exaggerated and a good death can do wonders.

An Arrow to the Heart. pg. 140 (2007)

Each time you sit down to practice, take a few minutes to feel in your heart why this is important to you.

Appeals to justice or fairness are almost always stories that hide or protect unacknowledged hurts or pains.

The most reliable way to cut through the thinking process is to bring attention to what you are experiencing in the body.

Any form of idealism involves avoiding some specific pain or suffering.

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