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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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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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If you follow your heart, you're going to find that it is often extremely inconvenient.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
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To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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