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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.

Pema Chodron

Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Children Love Self Treat Yourself
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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Destruction Expose Ourselves
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Crazy Drive Heart Learning Open Ourselves People Teacher
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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Alive Awake Death Experience Human Live Man Moments Willing
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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Call Ego Life Noble Resistance Suffering Truth
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Comfortable Fear Learning Moments Stay Willing
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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Essence Generosity Ourselves Pain Sign
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Need Spiritual Teaching Wisdom
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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
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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Choice Embrace Human Life Ourselves Situation Suffering
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Yourself
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Fear Open Ourselves Resistance
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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Alive Inspirational Magic Restriction Satisfaction
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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Difficult Experience Need Run Transformation Yourself
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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Acceptance Important Myself Right Thinking
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Awake Challenge Experience Open Path Spiritual

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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