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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More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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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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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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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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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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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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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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