If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
PEMA CHODRONIt 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.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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