Challenges Quote by Pema Chodron

“Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.” quote by Pema Chodron — Download Open image

“Determination means to use every challenge you meet as an opportunity to open your heart and soften, determined to not withdraw.”

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Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with an open heart and the willingness not to instantly try to get ground under our feet. For instance, if what we're feeling is rage, we usually assume that there are only two ways to relate to…

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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.

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“The essence of life is that it’s challenging. Sometimes it is sweet, and sometimes it is bitter. Sometimes your body tenses, and sometimes it relaxes or opens. Sometimes you have a headache, and sometimes you feel 100 percent healthy. From an awakened perspective, trying to tie up all the loose ends and finally get it together is death, because it…

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“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion. Perhaps there is no solid obstacle except our own need to protect ourselves from being touched. If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from…

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