NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 412

 

• ·       "Only the real religion of personal spiritual experience can function helpfully and creatively in the present
  crisis of civilization."

  ·       “Learning how to fail will help us more than anything else in life.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “Protecting ourselves from pain—our own and that of others—has never worked. Everybody wants to be free from their suffering, but the majority of us go about it in ways that only make things worse.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “When our main goals are to gain comfort and avoid discomfort, we begin to feel disconnected from, and even threatened by, others. We enclose ourselves in a mesh of fear.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “Some people work hard, day and night, in the field of helping others, but their strongest motivation is to stay busy so they can avoid feeling their own pain.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “It’s said that if we want to learn about our past, we should look at our present circumstances, for they are the result of our past actions. If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we’re doing now.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “Though we can’t predict or control what will come up next or how we will feel about it, we can do something about how we react. We can work on how we relate to whatever comes up.” - Pema Chödrön

  ·       “Every time we catch ourselves going down the rut of a habitual reaction, we have a chance to interrupt the momentum and discover a whole new direction and depth to our life.” - Pema Chödrön