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People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all.

Pema Chodron

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better me who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.
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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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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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When you have made good friends with yourself, your situation will be more friendly too.
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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 tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.
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