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The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
Mind
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Awakened
Confidence
Strength
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Heart

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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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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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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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Use your life to wake you up.
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The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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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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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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