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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
Tell
Away
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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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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.
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One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to you. For one minute, listen to the sounds at a distance. Just listen attentively.
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Ego is something that you come to know - something that you befriend by not acting out or by repressing all the feelings that you feel.
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We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
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Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what is going on, but that there is something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.
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Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.
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Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.
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Softening what is rigid in our hearts.
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Ego is like a room of your own, a room with a view with the temperature and the smells and the music that you like. You want it your own way. You'd just like to have a little peace, you'd like to have a little happiness, you know, just gimme a break.
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Openness doesn’t come from resisting our fears but rather from getting to know them well.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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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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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation.
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Just where you are-that's the place to start!
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This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
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My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.
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The essence of generosity is letting go. Pain is always a sign that we are holding on to something - usually ourselves.
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