By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

Pema Chödron
from the book The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
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Further quotes from the book The Places That Scare You:
- Life preferences
- Abiding in openness
- The queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere
- Idiot Compassion
- The root of happiness
- Our Shared Humanity
- Being in the middle of nowhere
- At least until you die
- Everyday uncertainty
- The anxiety of opening
- Being inspired by everyday good fortune
- The first mark of existence
- Forgive into freshness
- Compassion takes courage
- A flexible identity
- Threefold purity
- Our true nature and condition
- Happiness
- Dissolving our self-importance