Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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.
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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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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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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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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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