The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
PEMA CHODRONWe have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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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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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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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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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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