Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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.
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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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