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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.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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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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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.
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Learning how to be kind to ourselves, learning how to respect ourselves, is important. The reason it's important is that, fundamentally, when we look into our own hearts and begin to discover what is confused and what is brilliant, what is bitter and what is sweet, it isn't just ourselves that we're discovering. We're discovering the universe.
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Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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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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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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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?
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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
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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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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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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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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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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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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!
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