Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
PEMA CHODRONTreat yourself as your own beloved child.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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There’s nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.
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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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Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
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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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If you follow your heart, you’re going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary. Especially the ordinary.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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