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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.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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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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By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
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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.
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Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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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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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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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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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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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!
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