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If You Work With Your Mind, That Will Alleviate All The Suffering That Seems To Come From The Outside.
-Pema Chodron
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If You Work With Your
Pema Chodron
If You Work With Your Mind, That Will Alleviate All The Suffering That Seems To Come From The Outside.
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The Next Time You Lose Heart And You Can’t Bear To Experience What You’re Feeling, You Might Recall This Instruction: Change The Way You See It And Lean In. Instead Of Blaming Our Discomfort On Outer Circumstances Or On Our Own Weakness, We Can Choose To Stay Present And Awake To Our Experience, Not Rejecting It, Not Grasping It, Not Buying The Stories That We Relentlessly Tell Ourselves. This Is Priceless Advice That Addresses The True Cause Of Suffering—yours, Mine, And That Of All Living Beings.
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