To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Pema Chödrön

Similar quotes

Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.

Our life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact we have no fear of death anymore, and we have no actual difficulty in our life.

Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we're no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside.

Thich Nhat Hanh

People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

One who acts on truth is happy in this world and beyond.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

;