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Don’t get caught up in hopes of what you’ll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

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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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.
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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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If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
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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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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
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Opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly we discover where we're blocked.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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