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.
PEMA CHODRONAppreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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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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