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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

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
Spiritual
Sticking
Panic
Uncertainty
Midst
Chaos
Learning
Path
Relaxing
Getting
Knack

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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.
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Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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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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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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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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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.
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