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.
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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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