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Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.
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Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.
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You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you.
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it is only to the extent that we are willing to expose ourselves again and again to annihilation that we are able to find that part of ourselves that is indestructible.
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It is simply the creation of a space in which we are able to expose and undo our neurotic games, our self-deceptions, our hidden fears and hopes.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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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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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.
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I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.
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Clarity and decisiveness come from the willingness to slow down, to listen to and look at what’s happening.
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Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it.
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Fear itself is the vanguard of wisdom
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There are many changes in the weather of a day.
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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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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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