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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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We can put our whole heart into whatever we do but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for stress. Instead, we could just go forward with curiosity, wondering where this experiment will lead. This kind of open-ended inquisitiveness captures the spirit of enthusiasm, or heroic perseverance.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
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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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Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.
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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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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.
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None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
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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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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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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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