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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

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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Enlightenment
Spirituality
Direct
Experience
Reality

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The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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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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The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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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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When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
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Most of us do not take these situations as teachings. We automatically hate them. We run like crazy. We use all kinds of ways to escape - all addictions stem from this moment when we meet our edge and we just can't stand it. We feel we have to soften it, pad it with something, and we become addicted to whatever it is that seems to ease the pain.
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When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.
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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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Patience is not learned in safety.
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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