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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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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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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
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Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.
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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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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It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves that meditation becomes a transformative process. Only when we relate with ourselves without moralizing, without harshness, without deception, can we let go of harmful patterns. Without maitri (metta), renunciation of old habits becomes abusive. This is an important point.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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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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This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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