The commitment to take care of one another is often described as a vow to invite all sentient beings to be our guest. The prospect can be daunting. It means that everyone will be coming to our house. It means opening our door to everyone, not just to the people we like or the ones who smell good or the ones we consider “proper” but also to the violent ones and the confused ones — to people of all shapes, sizes, and colors, to people speaking all different languages, to people with all different points of view. Making this commitment means holding a diversity party in our living room, all day every day, until the end of time.

Pema Chödron

from the book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change

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Further quotes from the book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change:

• Groundlessness
• Building Inner Strength
• A Wall of Truth
• Unfettered mind
• Stepping-stones for awakening our compassion
• What are you doing when you are unhappy
• The real cause of our suffering
• Beyond our comfort zone
• The mandala of our life
• Just our personal viewpoint
• We Have a Choice
• Difficult relationships
• Forever in flux
• Everything and everyone is in process
• Embracing the groundlessness of our situation
• The knack of refraining
• The detox period
• Renouncing one thing
• Practicing with Strong Emotions