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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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