We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.

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
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- Exposing ourselves to annihilation
- Only in our own experience
- Until we got it
- Don’t Set Out to Save the World
- Fully alive
- No fresh air
- Becoming unstuck
- Abandoning hope
- Drive all blames into oneself
- What is in front of us right in the moment
- It’s just like that
- Just being here again and again and again
- Cultivating Peace
- Disappointment
- Undoing of old ways of seeing
- Moving closer to the truth
- The perfect teacher
- The courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently
- Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit