If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
PEMA CHODRONObstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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