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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

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
Truth
Spirituality
Anything
Honesty
Believe
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Happiness
Peace
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.
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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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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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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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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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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
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Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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Patience is not learned in safety.
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Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
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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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