The second noble truth says that this resistance is the mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
PEMA CHODRONDeep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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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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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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Each person’s life is like a mandala – a vast, limitless circle. We stand in the center of our own circle, and everything we see, hear and think forms the mandala of our life … everything that shows up in your mandala is a vehicle for your awakening.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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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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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.
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