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Intermezzo

by Sally Rooney (Goodreads Author)

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May 06, 2026 01:58AM

“In Tibetan there’s an interesting word: ye tang che. The ye part means “totally, completely,” and the rest of it means “exhausted.” Altogether, ye tang che means totally tired out. We might say “totally fed up.” It describes an experience of complete hopelessness, of completely giving up hope. This is an important point. This is the beginning of the beginning. Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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“Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at. Compassion isn’t some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we’re trying to live up too.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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“Blaming is a way to protect our hearts, to try to protect what is soft and open and tender in ourselves.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times. An insightful guide to self-improvement through compassion and wisdom

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“Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
― Doris Lessing

tags: friendship, love, trust

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“Whether it’s ourselves, our lovers, bosses, children, local Scrooge, or the political situation, it’s more daring and real not to shut anyone out of our hearts and not to make the other into an enemy. If we begin to live like this, we’ll find that we actually can’t make things completely right or completely wrong anymore, because things are a lot more slippery and playful than that. Everything is ambiguous; everything is always shifting and changing, and there are as many different takes on any given situation as there are people involved. Trying to find absolute rights and wrongs is a trick we play on ourselves to feel secure and comfortable.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

tags: ambiguity, change, life, living, openness

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