All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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