The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
PEMA CHODRONAll situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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Whatever 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.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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