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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

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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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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We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel take an interest and be curious.
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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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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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Until we stop clinging to the concept of good and evil, the world will continue to manifest as friendly goddesses and harmful demons.
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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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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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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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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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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?
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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior's world.
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In the most ordinary terms, egolessness is a flexible identity. It manifests as inquisitiveness , as adaptability, as humor, as playfulness. It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure who we are, or who anyone else is, either.
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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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.
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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