Many people hope a spiritual practice will let them avoid what they are ashamed of. But when you hide something from yourself, you are going to project it onto your world. You continually find it in others and it becomes the source of prejudices and dogmatic views. On top of that, you feel bad about yourself, because you aren't the loving, open-minded, "spiritual" person you'd like to be.
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear. - Pema Chodron
Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
- Pema Chodron
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the c… - Pema Chodron
Difficult things provoke all your irritations and bring your habitual patterns to the surface. And that becomes the moment of truth. You have the c…
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world. - Pema Chodron
Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather. - Pema Chodron
You are the sky. Everything else - it’s just the weather.
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. - Pema Chodron
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are. - Pema Chodron
All ego really is, is our opinions, which we take to be solid, real, and the absolute truth about how things are.
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do. - Pema Chodron
All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. - Pema Chodron
The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry a… - Pema Chodron
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry a…
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