We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
PEMA CHODRONObstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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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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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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