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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.
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Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.
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Each of us has a soft spot: the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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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.
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.
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In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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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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