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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
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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The more neurosis the more wisdom.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance.
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We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.
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Appreciate everything, even the ordinary... Especially the ordinary.
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The most complete and true happiness comes in moments when you feel right there, completely present, with no ideas about good and bad, right and wrong - just a sense of open heart and open mind.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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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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Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
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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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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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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 future is the result of what we do right now.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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