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Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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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.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.
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If you work with your mind, instead of trying to change everything on the outside, that's how your temper will cool down.
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Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.
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Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be, or who we think other people think we want to be or ought to be.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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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 are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
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By not knowing, not hoping to know and not acting like we know what's happening, we begin to access our inner strength.
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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Feel the feelings and drop the story.
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If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.
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Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
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