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The best spiritual instruction is when you wake up in the morning and say, 'I wonder what's going to happen today.' And then carry that kind of curiosity through your life.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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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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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
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There are many changes in the weather of a day.
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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.
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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.
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Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.
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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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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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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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Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
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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, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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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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