Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.
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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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