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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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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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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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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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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.
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We can put our whole heart into whatever we do but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for stress. Instead, we could just go forward with curiosity, wondering where this experiment will lead. This kind of open-ended inquisitiveness captures the spirit of enthusiasm, or heroic perseverance.
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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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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
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Few of us are satisfied with retreating from the world and just working on ourselves. We want our training to manifest and to be of benefit. The bodhisattva-warrior, therefore, makes a vow to wake up not just for himself but for the welfare of all beings.
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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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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 feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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