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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.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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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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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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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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Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.
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It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
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We practice to liberate ourselves from a burden.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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