Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
PEMA CHODRONSo many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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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 essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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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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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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