Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
PEMA CHODRONAll situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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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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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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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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 situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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