Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
PEMA CHODRONMeditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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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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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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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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