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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
Ordinary
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Everything
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
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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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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
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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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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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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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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
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It's not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share.
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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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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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