When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
Pema ChodronIt's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.
Pema ChodronThe only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
Pema ChodronPeace isnโt an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, itโs an experience thatโs expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
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