While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the world’s greatest experts on anger, jealousy, and self-deprecation, as well as on joyfulness, clarity, and insight. Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

Pema Chödron

from the book The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness

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Further quotes from the book The Wisdom of No Escape and the Path of Loving Kindness:

• Use your life
• Clinging to truth
• You’re always in the middle of the universe
• Befriending who we are
• A magical golden key
• Meeting our edge
• Who we are right now
• A little twist
• The challenge of now
• Just your interpretation of reality
• Share well-being
• Seeing clearly
• Get rid of heaven and hell
• Nurturing ourselves
• A proper cup of tea