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When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Things are as bad and as good as they seem. There's no need to add anything extra.
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None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine.
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Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us.
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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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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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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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Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.
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