All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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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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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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