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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

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
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
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Help Order Ourselves Work
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
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
When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Sky Yourself
All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Best Hard Time Situation Teaching Tough Yourself
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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Angry Disappoint Embarrassment Feeling Hold Irritation Jealous Moments Ourselves Teaching
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
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Need Spiritual Teaching Wisdom
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Build Delight Difficult Experience Strength Yourself
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Joy Life Lose Pain Patience Perspective Reaction Yourself
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
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

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