Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself.
Pema ChodronTonglen dissolves your solid sense of "I'm the wise person, I'm going to help this poor, unfortunate loser."
Pema ChodronSticking 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 momentโover and over again.
Pema ChodronThe approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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