Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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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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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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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.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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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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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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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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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.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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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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