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All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

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
Tough
Ones
Teach
Situation
Often
Best
Situations

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But all the time our warmth and brilliance are right here. This is who we really are. We are one blink of an eye away from being fully awake.
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Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
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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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The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we are.
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Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.
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Every small problem most likely stems from the same root as large problems, and so there is no need to always go deep. One can use anything for the therapeutic process and/if this link is made.
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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
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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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It isn't the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it's what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening. The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.
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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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Whatever you are doing, take the attitude of wanting it directly or indirectly to benefit others. Take the attitude of wanting it to increase your experience of kinship with your fellow beings.
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Let your curiosity be greater than your fear.
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The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.
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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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If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel take an interest and be curious.
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Allow situations in your life to become your teacher.
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