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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
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Awakened
Confidence
Strength
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
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The most important aspect of being on a spiritual path may be to just keep moving.
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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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Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
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Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
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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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It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
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Each of us has a soft spot: the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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How will we experience the world a month, a year, or five years from now? Will we be even angrier, more grasping and fearful, or will some shift have occurred? This depends entirely on the tendencies we reinforce today.
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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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