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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.

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
Called
Uncharted
Freedom
Stepping
Moving
Liberation
Away
Buddhist
Unknown
Buddhism
Comfort
Shaky
Security
Unknowing

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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
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It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
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If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better me who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.
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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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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
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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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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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