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:

• Awakening is essential
• Being with us
• The Possibility of Egolessness
• The path of true awakening
• Finding out what is true
• Flooding the world with your kindness
• Negativity begets negativity
• Exposing ourselves to annihilation
• Only in our own experience
• Become Familiar with Fear
• 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