Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
PEMA CHODRONWhen 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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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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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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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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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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