I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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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 future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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