Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
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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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, ‘I wonder what’s going to happen today.’ And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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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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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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