When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase. Cultivating nonaggression is cultivating peace. The way to stop the war is to stop hating the enemy. It starts with seeing our opinions of ourselves and of others as simply our take on reality and not making them a reason to increase the negativity on the planet.

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:

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