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None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.

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
Everything
None
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Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
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Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that way, we will benefit this earth.
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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
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If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
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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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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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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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Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
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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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Patience is not learned in safety.
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