Feel the feelings and drop the story.
PEMA CHODRONFeel the feelings and drop the story.
PEMA CHODRONDon’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
PEMA CHODRONBe kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
PEMA CHODRONSticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
PEMA CHODRONWhen we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
PEMA CHODRONIn the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
PEMA CHODRONNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
PEMA CHODRONThe central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
PEMA CHODRONBy the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
PEMA CHODRONThe truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
PEMA CHODRONTo 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.
PEMA CHODRONObstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
PEMA CHODRONWhen we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
PEMA CHODRONI 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 CHODRONIf someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
PEMA CHODRONThe future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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