The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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