The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need in order to open your heart.

Pema Chödron

from the book Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living

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Further quotes from the book Start Where You Are:

• Moving away from comfort and security
• Bottomless heart
• Communication without agenda
• Compassion along the path
• Underneath there’s something extremely soft
• The happiness we seek is already here
• You are guaranteed to be burned
• Self-liberate even the antidote
• Where Do Thoughts Come From
• Learning from everything
• Gloriousness and wretchedness