You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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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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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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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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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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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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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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