Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

by Pema Chödrön

We are a poignant mixture of something that isn’t all that beautiful and yet is dearly loved.

Only with equanimity can we see that everything that comes into our circle has come to teach us what we need to know.

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.

Rather than realizing that it takes death for there to be birth, we just fight against the fear of death.

"Everything that ends is also the beginning of something else."