If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
PEMA CHODRONWhatever 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.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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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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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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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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