Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
PEMA CHODRONIn meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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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.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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