If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
PEMA CHODRONThings falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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We 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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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something – usually ourselves.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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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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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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