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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.

Pema Chodron

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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Hate Ignorance Investment Opinion Ourselves War World
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Compassionate Path Reality Spiritual Start Suffering Ugly Yourself
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
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
There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Development Important Oneself Path Spiritual
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Care Feeling Hope Irritation Listening Reminder
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
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
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
Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Children Love Self Treat Yourself
It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Hard Time Ourselves Reaction Suffering
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Choice Control Person Moments Peace Yourself
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
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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Believe Suffering Truth Yourself
Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Friendship Obstacle Ourselves Stuck Teaching
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself

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