Meditation gives us the opportunity to have an open, compassionate attentiveness to whatever is going on. The meditative space is like the big sky — spacious, vast enough to accommodate anything that arises.

Pema Chödron

from the book How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends with Your Mind

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Further quotes from the book How to Meditate:

• Nourishing the seeds of basic goodness
• There is actually a lot of room
• The vast sky of your mind
• Non-thought
• Perceiving reality with an unfixated mind