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We don't set out to save the world we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
Action
Reflect
Heart
Ethics
World
Actions
People
Integrity
Save
Hearts
Compassion
Wonder
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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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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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Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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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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At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
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One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.
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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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There are many changes in the weather of a day.
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If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.
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