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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
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Use your life to wake you up.
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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.
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Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
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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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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.
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The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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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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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.
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The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.
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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.
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