Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
PEMA CHODRONThe future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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