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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.

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
Appreciate
Ordinary
Birth
Especially
Everything
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There are many changes in the weather of a day.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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The essence of practice is always the same: instead of falling prey to a chain reaction of revenge or self-hatred, we gradually learn to catch the emotional reaction and drop the story lines.
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