We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh, unfixated, and unbiased.
Pema Chödron
from the book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change
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Further quotes from the book Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change:
- Unfettered mind
- The real cause of our suffering
- Beyond our comfort zone
- The mandala of our life
- Building Inner Strength
- Difficult relationships
- Stepping-stones for awakening our compassion
- Holding a diversity party in our living room
- What are you doing when you are unhappy
- A Wall of Truth
- Just our personal viewpoint
- Groundlessness
- Forever in flux
- Everything and everyone is in process
- Embracing the groundlessness of our situation
- The knack of refraining
- Renouncing one thing
- The detox period
- Practicing with Strong Emotions