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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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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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 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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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
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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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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
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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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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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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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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.
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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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