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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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  Worry, Perfection, Moments

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.18, Shambhala Publications

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• Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.

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  Spiritual, Exercise, Relax

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.8, Shambhala Publications

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• Things become clear when there is no escape.

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  Clear

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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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  Thinking, People, Brave

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• This genuine heart of sadness can teach us great compassion. It can humble us when we're arrogant and soften us when we are unkind.

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  Heart, Humble, Sadness

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Patterns, Enough, Feels

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• Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as you are in that moment, a way of saying, "This is my experience right now, and it's okay." Then go into the next moment without any agenda.

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  Heart, Hands, Mindfulness

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.72, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Teacher, Inspirational Love, Peace

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• When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.

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  Good Friend, Friendly, Made

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Energy, Moments, Uncomfortable

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.74, Shambhala Publications

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• The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.

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  Real, Who We Are, Renounce

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.54, Shambhala Publications

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• The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

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  Emotional, Meditation, Easier

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• For one day, or for one day for a week, refrain from something you habitually do to run away, to escape. Pick something concrete, such as overeating or excessive sleeping or overworking or spending too much time texting or checking e-mails. Make a commitment to yourself to gently and compassionately work with refraining from this habit for this one day. Really commit to it. Do this with the intention that it will put you in touch with the underlying anxiety or uncertainty that you've been avoiding. Do it and see what you discover.

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  Running, Sleep, Commitment

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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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  Inner Strength, Difficult, Delightful

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• When resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

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  Inspirational, Gone, Resistance

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• Compassion isn't some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we're trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don't even want to look at.

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  Compassion, Self, Imperfection

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.104, Shambhala Publications

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• So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

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  Peace, Buddhist, War

  Pema Chodron (2006). “Practicing Peace in Times of War”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

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  Tough, Teach, Situation

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Keys, Alive, Golden

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.5, Shambhala Publications

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• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.

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  Soulmate, Heart, Opening Our Hearts

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.128, Shambhala Publications

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• All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.

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  War, Ignorance, Hatred

  Pema Chodron (2012). “Living Beautifully: with Uncertainty and Change”, p.108, Shambhala Publications

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• So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

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  Spiritual, Real, Healing

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• How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.

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  Joy, Staying, Train

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.82, Shambhala Publications

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• We are like children building a sand castle. We embellish it with beautiful shells, bits of driftwood, and pieces of colored glass. The castle is ours, off limits to others. We’re willing to attack if others threaten to hurt it. Yet despite all our attachment, we know that the tide will inevitably come in and sweep the sand castle away. The trick is to enjoy it fully but without clinging, and when the time comes, let it dissolve back into the sea.

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  Beautiful, Hurt, Children

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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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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  Running, Taught Us, Needs

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.165, Shambhala Publications

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