Quotes About Resilience

When the world is filled with evil, transform all mishaps into the path of enlightenment.

The joy comes from not giving up on ourselves, from mindfully sticking with ourselves and beginning to experience our great warrior spirit.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news.

It's as if you just looked at yourself in the mirror, and you saw a gorilla. The mirror's there; it's showing you, and what you see looks bad. You try to angle the mirror so you will look a little better, but no matter what you do, you still look like a gorilla. That's being nailed by life, the place where you have no choice except to embrace what's happening or push it away.

The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought.

This was because I could see it for what it was, instead of getting immersed in it and sowing more seeds of feeling rejected.

This starts with realizing that whatever occurs is neither the beginning nor the end. It is just the same kind of normal human experience that's been happening to everyday people from the beginning of time.

The instruction is to relate compassionately with where we find ourselves and to begin to see our predicament as workable.

Clouds come and go without harming the sky. Like that, thoughts come and go without harming our mind. Whether we like it or not, the thoughts keep coming. That's just how things are. We don't have to see it as a problem

even in the most difficult situations, we do our best to smile at fear, to smile at our righteous indignation, our cowardliness, our avoidance of vulnerability.

the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.

Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it's where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.

you'll eventually come to feel like you're in a battle with reality and reality is always winning.

We're able to see how we run and hide and keep ourselves busy so that we never have to let our hearts be penetrated. And we're also able to see how we could open and relax.

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news. —CHÖGYAM TRUNGPA RINPOCHE

There comes a time when we are able to be pierced to the heart by our own suffering, and the suffering of others, and by our own regrets, without it dragging us down.

Sooner or later we understand that although we can't make fear look pretty, it will nevertheless introduce us to all the teaching we've ever heard or read.

But there is that feeling. And there's always another challenge, and that keeps us humble. Life knocks you off your pedestal.

When the world is filled with evil, all mishaps, all difficulties, should be transformed into the path of enlightenment.

Realizing our wealth would end our bewilderment and confusion. But the only way to do that is to let things fall apart. And that's the very thing that we dread the most—the ultimate defeat. Yet letting things fall apart would actually let fresh air into this old, stale basement of a heart that we've got.

Then I remembered: sitting still in the middle of a fire or a tornado or an earthquake or a tidal wave, sitting still. This provides the opportunity to experience once again the living quality of our life's energy—earth, air, fire, and water.

resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. There is definitely something tender and throbbing about groundlessness.

They were tested and failed and still kept exploring how to just stay there, not seeking solid ground.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It's just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.