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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)
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