When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
PEMA CHODRONUse what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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