You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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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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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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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the 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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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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