All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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