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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
Writer
New York City
New York
Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
Invested
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Planet
Planets
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Wrong

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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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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
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It is possible to move through the drama of our lives without believing so earnestly in the character that we play.
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Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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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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It becomes increasingly clear that we won’t be free of self-destructive patterns unless we develop a compassionate understanding of what they are.
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Searching for happiness prevents us from ever finding it.
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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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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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The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.
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The first noble truth of the Buddha is that when we feel suffering, it doesn’t mean that something is wrong. What a relief.
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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.
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As for our inner level of obstacle, perhaps the only enemy we have is that we don't like the way reality is now and therefore wish it would go away fast. But what we need to acknowledge is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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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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