Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
PEMA CHODRONAs our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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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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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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