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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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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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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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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
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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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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
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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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Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
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So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.
Pema Chodron
Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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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 real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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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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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.
Pema Chodron
The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.
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