Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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 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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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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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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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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