Whatever happens, our commitment is to use it to awaken our heart. As one of the slogans says, ‘All activities should be done with one intention.’ That intention is to realize our connection with all beings.

Pema Chödron

from the book The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

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Further quotes from the book The Places That Scare You:

• Cultivating equanimity
• Stay!
• Whatever we encounter
• Dissolving our fear
• Nothing and no one is fixed
• Life preferences
• Abiding in openness
• The queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere
• Idiot Compassion
• The root of happiness
• Our Shared Humanity
• Being in the middle of nowhere
• At least until you die
• Everyday uncertainty
• The anxiety of opening
• Being inspired by everyday good fortune
• The first mark of existence
• Forgive into freshness
• Compassion takes courage