Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
PEMA CHODRONSo 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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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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Meditation isn’t really about getting rid of thoughts, it’s about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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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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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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