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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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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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When we resist change, it’s called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it’s dynamic quality, that’s called enlightenment
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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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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So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)
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Whole-heartedn ess is a precious gift, but no one can actually give it to you. You have to find the path that has heart and then walk it impeccably....It' s like someone laughing in your ear, challenging you to figure out what to do when you don't know what to do. It humbles you. It opens your heart.
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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.
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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
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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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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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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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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
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