We hear a lot about the pain of samsara, and we also hear about liberation. But we don’t hear much about how painful it is to go from being completely stuck to becoming unstuck. The process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality, like changing our DNA. We are undoing a pattern that is not just our pattern. It’s the human pattern.

Pema Chödron

from the book When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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Further quotes from the book When Things Fall Apart:

• Being with us
• The Possibility of Egolessness
• The path of true awakening
• Finding out what is true
• Flooding the world with your kindness
• Negativity begets negativity
• Exposing ourselves to annihilation
• Only in our own experience
• Become Familiar with Fear
• Until we got it
• Don’t Set Out to Save the World
• Fully alive
• No fresh air
• Abandoning hope
• Drive all blames into oneself
• What is in front of us right in the moment
• It’s just like that
• How are you
• Just being here again and again and again