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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

By T. S. Eliot
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T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) was an America-born British poet, playwright, essayist, and editor. The recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948, his poetry captures the essence of spiritual realization that unites Buddhism and the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

For many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn’t take much—just hearing of someone else’s accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

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Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield (foreword)
2004
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Lodro Rinzler—How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People)

Most of us think that love is something out there—something to be attained—yet the Buddha taught that underneath our layers of self-doubt and criticism is peace and love within each of us.

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Lodro Rinzler
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2018
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How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) is a smart, hip guide for spiritual seekers who want to experience more love and stability in all forms of relationships.

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Lodro Rinzler, Meggan Watterson
2015
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Buddhanature: You’re Perfect as You Are

Why feel bad about yourself when you are naturally aware, loving, and wise? Mingyur Rinpoche explains how to see past the temporary stuff and discover your own buddhanature.

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Yingey Mingyur Rinpoche
2021
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The Story of You

If you use your awareness, you will see everything you believe, and this is how you live your life. Your life is totally dominated by the system of beliefs that you learned.

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don Jose Ruiz
2011
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How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy.

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Nicole Lepera
2025
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Panache Desai: You’re Not Here to Be Liked

Spiritual teacher Panache Desai explains that as you embrace yourself, including your neuroses, you begin to realize public opinion and approval are inconsequential to your soul’s development. Finding the courage to live in alignment with that is the experience of love.

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Panache Desai
2016
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Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance

Every day, American women and girls are besieged by images and messages that suggest their beauty is inadequate, inflicting immeasurable harm upon their confidence and sense of wellbeing.

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Rosie Molinary
2016
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Whole Again: Healing Your Heart and Rediscovering Your True Self After Toxic Relationships and Emotional Abuse

Jackson MacKenzie has helped millions of people in their struggle to understand the experience of toxic relationships. His first book, Psychopath Free, explained how to identify and survive the immediate situation.

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Jackson MacKenzie
2019
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The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address

In May of 2015, Parker J.

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Maria Popova
2015
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