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.
PEMA CHODRONThings falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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