In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
PEMA CHODRONBeing 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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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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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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