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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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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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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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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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Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.
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Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.
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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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Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
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At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
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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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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
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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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Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
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