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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.

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
Humans
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Zillion
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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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We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.
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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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All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.
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Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick.
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At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us.
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The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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Use your life to wake you up.
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Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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According to the Buddhist belief, you can go on and on indefinitely, so you see your life as just a brief moment in time.
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Our neurosis and our wisdom are made out of the same material. If you throw out your neurosis, you also throw out your wisdom.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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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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To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
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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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Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
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Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person.
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Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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