Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
PEMA CHODRONNever give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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