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.
PEMA CHODRONThe central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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