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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

Pema Chodron

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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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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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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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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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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.

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