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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.
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This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
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If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.
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