Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
PEMA CHODRONWhen we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
More Pema Chodron Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we’re stuck.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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Feeling irritated, restless, afraid, and hopeless is a reminder to listen more carefully.
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