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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.

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
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Away
Right
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Really
Brilliance
Time
Warmth

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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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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
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We see how beautiful and wonderful and amazing things are, and we see how caught up we are. It isn’t that one is the bad part and one is the good part, but that it’s a kind of interesting, smelly, rich, fertile mess of stuff. When it’s all mixed up together, it’s us: humanness.
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In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.
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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
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