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

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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
Clergyman
Philosopher
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New York City
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Deirdre Blomfield-Brow
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We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.
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The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
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Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.
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Treat yourself as your own beloved child.
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The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last—that they don’t disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security.
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Compassion starts with making friends with ourselves.
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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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Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
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Surrendering, letting go of possessiveness, and complete nonattachment-all are synonyms for accumulating merit.
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You see, there really is no separation between you and everyone else.
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Whatever is happening is the path to enlightenment.
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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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All the wars, all the hatred, all the ignorance in the world come out of being so invested in our opinions.
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Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
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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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To live is to be willing to die over and over again.
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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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In order to have compassion for others, we have to have compassion for ourselves.
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Never underestimate the desire to bolt.
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I equate ego with trying to figure everything out instead of going with the flow. That closes your heart and your mind to the person or situation that's right in front of you, and you miss so much.
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