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The future is the result of what we do right now.

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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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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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
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When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
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It has a lot to do with developing patience, not with the check-out person so much, but with your own pain that arises, the rawness and the vulnerability, and sending some kind of warmth and love to that rawness and soreness. I think that's how we have to practice.
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What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.
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The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
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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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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
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I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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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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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
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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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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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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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