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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.
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Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.
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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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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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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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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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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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Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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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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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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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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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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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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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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