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Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

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
Patience
Speed
Training
Energy
Restlessness
Things
Abiding
Letting
Evolve

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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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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.
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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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We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better me who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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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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What you do for yourself, any gesture of kindness, any gesture of gentleness, any gesture of honesty and clear seeing toward yourself, will affect how you experience your world. In fact, it will transform how you experience the world. What you do for yourself, you’re doing for others, and what you do for others, you’re doing for yourself.
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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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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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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