What we’re talking about is getting to know fear, becoming familiar with fear, looking it right in the eye — not as a way to solve problems, but as a complete undoing of old ways of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and thinking. The truth is that when we really begin to do this, we’re going to be continually humbled.

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:

• 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
• Fully alive
• No fresh air
• Becoming unstuck