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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.

Pema Chodron

Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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Gratitude Ordinary Praise
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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Believe Creation Ourselves Thinking Way World
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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Believe Suffering Truth Yourself
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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Compassionate Kind World Yourself
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Comfortable Fear Learning Moments Stay Willing
So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
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Compassionate Path Reality Spiritual Start Suffering Ugly Yourself
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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Change Experience Grasp Meditation Ourselves Pattern Thinking
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest.
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Enough Learning Manifestation Medication Way Wisdom Yourself
Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Friendship Obstacle Ourselves Stuck Teaching
Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Awake Challenge Experience Open Path Spiritual
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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Avoid Certain Comfortable Question Training Warrior
The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Believe Hold On Truth Yourself
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Pain Resistance Suffering
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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Attention Fact Heart Person Shout Stand Yourself
Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Fear Open Ourselves Resistance
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Alive Awake Death Experience Human Live Man Moments Willing

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