Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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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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