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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

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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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean.
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Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
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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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It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately fill up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness. -Pema Chodron, from When Things Fall Apart
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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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Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.
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Since death is certain and the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?
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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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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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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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