“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.”
“Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.”
“The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.”
“When things fall apart and we can’t get the pieces back together, we experience a kind of death. We’re left hanging in midair with no landing in sight.”
“Rather than being disheartened by the uncertainty of life, what if we accepted it and relaxed into it?”
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”
“Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected.”
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved.”
“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.”
“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
“Without loving-kindness for ourselves, it is difficult to genuinely feel it for others.”
“When we resist change, it’s called suffering.”
“A further sign of health is that we don’t become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it’s time to stop struggling and look directly at what’s threatening us.”
“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
“We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same.”
“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless.”
“The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.”
“To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh.”
“Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.”
“As human beings, not only do we seek resolution, but we also feel that we deserve it.”
“The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.”
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
“The only thing that is certain is that we will change. The uncertainty we live in is the very source of our awakening.”
“We can’t do anything about the length of our lives, but we can do something about its width and depth.”
“Rather than asking, ‘How can I find security and happiness?’ we could ask, ‘Can I touch the center of my pain and let it be?’”
“Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it afloat.”
“Inner strength comes from practicing the heart of awakening, the heart of bravery.”
“Even the simplest things can bring us back to the freshness of the present moment.”
“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts.”
“Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.”
“Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen, and to look at what’s happening.”
“Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling.”
“Instead of trying to ward off change, we could welcome it.”
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and imperfections.”
“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.”
“Every time we are willing to let the story line go, we connect with that open, unbound space.”
“Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.”
“Awakening is a continual process of relaxing and accepting.”
Thank You Dear.
