Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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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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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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