Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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 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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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