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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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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
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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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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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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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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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Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
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This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
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Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
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Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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Patience is not learned in safety.
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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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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?
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Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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