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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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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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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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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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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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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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Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
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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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Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.
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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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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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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
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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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When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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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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