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“The core belief is always a negative belief we have about ourselves, an opinion so painful that we will do almost anything to avoid feeling our abject sense of unlovability and worthlessness. The basic strategies are our ardent but deluded responses: fixed reactions in a fluid world.”
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“The paradox of practice is that as we use tremendous effort to stay with this pain the best we can, it slowly erodes, and moments can arise of no effort—of just pain, just joy.”
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“She points out that whenever we are upset, we have a good clue that our patterns are in action.”
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“She emphasizes that we have to do this bodily, experiencing sensations thousands and thousands of times. The thoughts become like bubbles, neither clung to nor amplified with a subsequent train of other thoughts. The body sensations become just that: sensations that are experienced and gradually weaken. Then moments of the joy, regardless of what is going on, appear, unmasked.”
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“Joko also clarifies in her talks that our core belief, our strategies, our thoughts, and our body sensations—all that we think are so concrete—are nothing more than the experience of the present moment.”
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“She teaches that our internal agony is nothing other than enlightenment itself.”
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