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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.

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
Challenges
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Experience
Become
Anything
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Pathways
Challenging
Awakening

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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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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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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.
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Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we're not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to be with them and communicate with them properly.
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There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be alive rather than trying to seek harmony.
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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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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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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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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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Finding the courage to go to the places that scare us cannot happen without compassionate inquiry into the workings of ego... Openness doesn't come from resisting our fears but from getting to know them well.
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Difficult people are the greatest teachers.
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We sow the seeds of our future hells or happiness by the way we open or close our minds right now.
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
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