Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
PEMA CHODRONIf we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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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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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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