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Never underestimate the power of compassionately recognizing what's going on.

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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Being preoccupied with our self-image is like being deaf and blind. It's like standing in the middle of a vast field of wildflowers with a black hood over our heads. It's like coming upon a tree of singing birds while wearing earplugs.
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Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.
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To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.
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we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves, we help the world.
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Everything in our lives has the potential to wake us up or put us to sleep. Allowing it to awaken us is up to us.
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So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)
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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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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
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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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One can appreciate & celebrate each moment — there’s nothing more sacred. There’s nothing more vast or absolute. In fact, there’s nothing more!
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Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.
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In truth, there is enormous space in which to live our everyday lives.
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Honesty without kindness, humor, and goodheartedness can be just mean. From the very beginning to the very end, pointing to our own hearts to discover what is true isn’t just a matter of honesty but also of compassion and respect for what we see.
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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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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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While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
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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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It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
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