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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
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.
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The approach is that the best way to use unwanted circumstances on the path of enlightenment is not to resist but to lean into them.
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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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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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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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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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If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.
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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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Each of us has a soft spot: the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
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The truth is that good and bad coexist sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.
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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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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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