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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.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Terrible
Thing
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Alive
Wisdom
Fear
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If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.
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we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.
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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 painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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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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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
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Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.
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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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Someone needs to encourage us not to brush aside what we feel. Not to be ashamed of the love and grief that it arouses in us. Not to be afraid of pain. Someone needs to encourage us: that this soft spot in us could be awakened, and that to do this would change our lives.
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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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