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.
PEMA CHODRONNothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Meditation 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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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 things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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