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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.

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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Peace
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Away
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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
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The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval,we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness,we are practicing harshness.
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Compassionate action starts with seeing yourself when you start to make yourself right and when you start to make yourself wrong. At that point you could just contemplate the fact that there is a larger alternative to either of those, a more tender, shaky kind of place where you could live.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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Anything we experience, no matter how challenging, can become an open pathway to awakening.
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Obstacles are our friends: they teach us where we're stuck.
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As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
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The future is the result of what we do right now.
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My moods are continuously shifting like the weather.
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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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Are you experiencing restlessness? Stay! Are fear and loathing out of control? Stay! Aching knees and throbbing back? Stay! What's for lunch? Stay! I can't stand this another minute! Stay!
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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