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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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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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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
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We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better me who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.
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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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We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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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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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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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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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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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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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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