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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.

Pema Chodron

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Deep Enough Feeling Oneself Pattern
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
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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Complaint Emotional Fortune Goodness Inspirational Ordinary Rejoice World
If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Heart Inspirational Yourself
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Curiosity Fear Greatness Yourself
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
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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Choice Embrace Human Life Ourselves Situation Suffering
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Gratitude Ordinary Praise
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Compassionate Medicine Personal Poison Suffering Yourself
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Future Moments Open Writing
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Comfortable Fear Learning Moments Stay Willing
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Need Spiritual Teaching Wisdom
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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Acceptance Important Myself Right Thinking

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