Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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