Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
PEMA CHODRONAll situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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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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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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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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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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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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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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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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