All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
PEMA CHODRONSo war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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I 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.
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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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When 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.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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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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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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