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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.

Pema Chodron

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Compassionate Medicine Personal Poison Suffering Yourself
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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Choice Control Person Moments Peace Yourself
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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Celebration Fall Identity Life World Yourself
Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Achievement Best Moments Perfection Worry Yourself
Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Give Up Inspirational Motivational Self Love Yourself
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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
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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Essence Generosity Ourselves Pain Sign
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
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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Difficult Experience Need Run Transformation Yourself
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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Choice Circumstance Hard Kind Life Open Scare
There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Development Important Oneself Path Spiritual
If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Heart Inspirational Yourself
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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Enough Learning Manifestation Medication Way Wisdom Yourself
Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Feeling One Liner
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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Best Curiosity Instruction Life Morning Spiritual Wonder Yourself
All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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Hate Ignorance Investment Opinion Ourselves War World

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.

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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.

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