One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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