Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
PEMA CHODRONYou build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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