You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
PEMA CHODRONAs our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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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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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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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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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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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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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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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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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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