By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
PEMA CHODRONEach 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.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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