We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds.

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:

• 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
• The courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently
• Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit
• Being with us
• Cultivating Peace
• It’s just like that
• The path of true awakening
• Undoing of old ways of seeing
• Awakening is essential
• Exposing ourselves to annihilation