Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
PEMA CHODRONWe work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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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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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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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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