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.
PEMA CHODRONBe kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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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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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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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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It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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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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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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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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