Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
PEMA CHODRONWhen 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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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