Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
PEMA CHODRONThe greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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If 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.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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