If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
PEMA CHODRONThe future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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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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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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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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