Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
PEMA CHODRONAnything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we’re holding back.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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