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.
PEMA CHODRONYou build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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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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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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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