You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
PEMA CHODRONObstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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