If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
PEMA CHODRONUse what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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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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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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