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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.
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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
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Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
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Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.
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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
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The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
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The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.
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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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