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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
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The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
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It's important to remember, when we're out there aggressively working for reform, that, even if our particular issue doesn't get resolved, we are adding peace to the world. We have to do our best and at the same time give up all hope of fruition.
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The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
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When we touch the center of sorrow, when we sit with discomfort without trying to fix it, when we stay present to the pain of disapproval or betrayal and let it soften us, these are times that we connect with bohdichitta.
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Use your life to wake you up.
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All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
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When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)
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To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
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