The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
PEMA CHODRONIf we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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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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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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