Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
PEMA CHODRONObstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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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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