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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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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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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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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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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