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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.

Pema Chodron

Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Curiosity Fear Greatness Yourself
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
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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Certain Chaos Learning Path Spiritual Stick
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Choice Control Person Moments Peace Yourself
Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Children Love Self Treat Yourself
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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Change Experience Grasp Meditation Ourselves Pattern Thinking
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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Enough Learning Manifestation Medication Way Wisdom Yourself
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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Arrive Need Problem Run Teaching
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Build Delight Difficult Experience Strength Yourself
Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Moments Time Unique
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Need Spiritual Teaching Wisdom
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Global Heart Human Implication Peace Start War
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Awake Challenge Experience Open Path Spiritual
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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End Kind Situation Support Togetherness
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Fear Open Ourselves Resistance

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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