Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
PEMA CHODRONThe truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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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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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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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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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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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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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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