There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
PEMA CHODRONThings falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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 future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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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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