Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
PEMA CHODRONYou build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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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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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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