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Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
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Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
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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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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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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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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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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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There are many changes in the weather of a day.
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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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By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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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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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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