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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.

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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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.
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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.
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Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
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The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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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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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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