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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.

Pema Chodron

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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Creation Future Inspirational Motivational Need Open Yourself
Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Certain Death Important Philosophy Time
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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Believe Suffering Truth Yourself
Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Gratitude Ordinary Praise
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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Arrive Need Problem Run Teaching
Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Care Feeling Hope Irritation Listening Reminder
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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Choice Circumstance Hard Kind Life Open Scare
One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Deep Enough Feeling Oneself Pattern
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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Enough Learning Manifestation Medication Way Wisdom Yourself
Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Feeling One Liner
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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Difficult Experience Need Run Transformation Yourself
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Comfortable Fear Learning Moments Stay Willing
All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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Best Hard Time Situation Teaching Tough Yourself
Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Brave Courage Fear Inspirational People Thinking
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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Global Heart Human Implication Peace Start War
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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Change Experience Grasp Meditation Ourselves Pattern Thinking

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