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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Pema Chodron

Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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Awake Life Limitation Person Stand Thinking Vehicle Yourself
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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End Kind Situation Support Togetherness
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Growth Kindness Ourselves People
If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Heart Inspirational Yourself
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.
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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Friendship Obstacle Ourselves Stuck Teaching
Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Children Love Self Treat Yourself
You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Build Delight Difficult Experience Strength Yourself
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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Awake Challenge Experience Open Path Spiritual
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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Hate Ignorance Investment Opinion Ourselves War World
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Achievement Best Moments Perfection Worry Yourself
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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Choice Embrace Human Life Ourselves Situation Suffering
We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Help Order Ourselves Work
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Compassionate Path Reality Spiritual Start Suffering Ugly Yourself
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Crazy Drive Heart Learning Open Ourselves People Teacher

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

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