Usually we regard loneliness as an enemy. Heartache is not something we choose to invite in. It's restless and pregnant and hot with the desire to escape and find something or someone to keep us company. When we can rest in the middle, we begin to have a nonthreatening relationship with loneliness, a relaxing and cooling loneliness that completely turns our usual fearful patterns upside down. β¨ Pema Chodron (2000). When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, p.71, Shambhala Publications
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- Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
- Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. β¨ Pema Chodron (2008). The Pocket Pema Chodron, p.71, Shambhala Publications
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