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.
PEMA CHODRONAppreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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All situations teach you, and often it’s the tough ones that teach you best.
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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.
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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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