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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
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So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)
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There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.
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How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have occurred? This depends entirely on the tendencies we reinforce today.
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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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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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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