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Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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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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The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
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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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