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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
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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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I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
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When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
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If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.
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The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.
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When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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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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