When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
PEMA CHODRONThe 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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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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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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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