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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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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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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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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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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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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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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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Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
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