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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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All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that more areas of our lives are workable. AS we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others-what and whom we can work with, and how-becomes wider.
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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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There are many changes in the weather of a day.
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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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Each of us has a soft spot: the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.
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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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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.
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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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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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