You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
PEMA CHODRONBe kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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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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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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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