Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
PEMA CHODRONDeep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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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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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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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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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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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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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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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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In the end, that’s what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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