To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
PEMA CHODRONOne of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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