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A heartfelt sense of aspiring cuts through negativity about yourself it cuts through the heavy trips you lay on yourself.

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
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Lays
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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Discomfort of any kind becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing our pain is shared.
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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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Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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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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Patience takes courage. It is not an ideal state of calm. In fact, when we practice patience we will see our agitation far more clearly.
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The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.
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Awareness is the key. Do we see the stories that we're telling ourselves and question their validity?
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
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When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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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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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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