Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.
PEMA CHODRONYou are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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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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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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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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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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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 situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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I can’t overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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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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