The only reason we don’t open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.
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:
- 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
- Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit
- 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