You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
PEMA CHODRONI 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.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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