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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

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
Compassion
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Suffering
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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