Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
PEMA CHODRONIn 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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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don’t lose your sense of perspective.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.
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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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Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
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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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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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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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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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