All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
PEMA CHODRONThe 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.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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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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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, unbiased.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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