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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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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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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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Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.
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By the way that we think and by the way that we believe in things, in that way our world is created.
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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others.
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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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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Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
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Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
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