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.
PEMA CHODRONWe can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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It 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.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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