The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Pema Chödrön

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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.

Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.

That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

Denzel Whitaker

But you know that disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.

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