Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
PEMA CHODRONWhen 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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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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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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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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