Whatever you experience in your life – pain, pleasure, heat, cold, or anything else – is like something happening in a dream. Although you might think things are very solid, they are like passing memory. You can experience this open, unfixated quality in sitting meditation: All that arises in your mind – hate, love, and all the rest – is not solid. Although the experience can get extremely vivid, it is just a product of your mind. Nothing solid is really happening.

Pema Chödron

from the book Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness

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Further quotes from the book Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness:

• Whatever shakes you
• Eating poisonous food
• Joyful path
• All irritations are crucial
• The mutual dance of love
• Effort
• Learning to live with your sanity
• Aspiration
• Look Behind the Mask of Your Confusion
• Don’t Expect Applause