One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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More Pema Chodron Quotes
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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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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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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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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