Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
PEMA CHODRONThe greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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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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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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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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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