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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.

Pema Chodron

The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Future Moments Open Writing
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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Creation Future Inspirational Motivational Need Open Yourself
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Growth Kindness Ourselves People
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Brave Courage Fear Inspirational People Thinking
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Compassionate Medicine Personal Poison Suffering Yourself
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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Change Dynamic Enlightenment Ourselves Resistance Situation Struggle Suffering
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
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Deep Enough Feeling Oneself Pattern
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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Complaint Emotional Fortune Goodness Inspirational Ordinary Rejoice World
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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Believe Creation Ourselves Thinking Way World
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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Awake Life Limitation Person Stand Thinking Vehicle Yourself
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
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
Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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Certain Chaos Learning Path Spiritual Stick
The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Connection Greatness Joy Obstacle Ourselves

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