All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
PEMA CHODRONNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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