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I have all the support I need to simply relax and be with the transitional, in-process quality of my life. I have all I need to engage in the process of awakening.

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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The idea is to develop sympathy for your own confusion.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life it might be the only strawberry we'll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.
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As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.
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Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
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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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Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.
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If your everyday practice is open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that - then that will take you are far as you can go. And then you'll understand all the teachings that anyone has ever taught.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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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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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
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Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.
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It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
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