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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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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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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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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