Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there’s an arrow in your heart.
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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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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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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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It isn’t what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it’s what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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