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Patience is not learned in safety.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
Patience
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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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, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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