Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
PEMA CHODRONAll you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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