The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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