Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.

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:

• Cultivating equanimity
• Doing all with one intention
• Stay!
• Whatever we encounter
• Dissolving our fear
• Nothing and no one is fixed
• 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
• The first mark of existence
• Forgive into freshness
• Compassion takes courage