Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

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:

• The courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently
• Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit
• Being with us
• Cultivating Peace
• It’s just like that
• The path of true awakening
• Undoing of old ways of seeing
• Awakening is essential
• Exposing ourselves to annihilation
• Negativity begets negativity
• Fully alive
• Disappointment
• Become Familiar with Fear
• How are you
• Only in our own experience
• The Possibility of Egolessness
• Don’t Set Out to Save the World
• Drive all blames into oneself
• The perfect teacher