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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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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.
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It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.
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We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
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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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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
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