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The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Pema Chodron

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Help Order Ourselves Work
If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Heart Inspirational Yourself
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
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
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.
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Alive Awake Death Experience Human Live Man Moments Willing
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Achievement Best Moments Perfection Worry Yourself
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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Hate Ignorance Investment Opinion Ourselves War World
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
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Curiosity Fear Greatness 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
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Compassionate Path Reality Spiritual Start Suffering Ugly 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
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Joy Life Lose Pain Patience Perspective Reaction Yourself
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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Destruction Expose Ourselves
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Future Moments Open Writing

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