Pema Chodron’s newest book, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves From Old Habits & Fears, grabbed me from the very start and wouldn’t let me go. It’s message is still resonating with me and I’ve been telling all my friends about it.

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, …

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. – Montaigne

Stand still. The trees and bushes beside you are not lost. Wherever you are is called “here” and you must treat it as a powerful stranger, must ask permission to know it and be known. …

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