The central question of a warrior’s training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
PEMA CHODRONIf we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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