Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it. Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don’t get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit.

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:

• 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
• How are you
• 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
• Awakening is essential
• Being with us
• The Possibility of Egolessness