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Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

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
Enough
Arise
Challenges
Expansiveness
Feeling
Expansive
Free
Arises
Peace
Include
Experience
Threatened
Feelings
Smooth
Without
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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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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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Our patterns are well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wanting for them to be ventilated isn't enough. Those of us who struggle with this know.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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Tonglen is a way for you to be with people who need you - beginning with yourself.
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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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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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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
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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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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
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Use your life to wake you up.
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You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
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