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If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time.
Pema Chodron
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Pema Chodron
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 14
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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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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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If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your 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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When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
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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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If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.
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Nothing in its essence is one way or the other.
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I'm here to tell you that the path to peace is right there, when you want to get away.
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We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things.
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As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
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Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply very lightly acknowledge that. This light touch is the golden key to reuniting with our openness.
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If we knew that tonight we were going to go blind, we would take a long, last real look at every blade of grass, every cloud formation, every speck of dust, every rainbow, raindrop-everything.
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In the end, that's what we all need more than anything else: to be there for each other, in every kind of situation.
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That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. Everything is in process.
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The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality.
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Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears. We can bring ourselves back to the spiritual path countless times every day simply by exercising our willingness to rest in the uncertainty of the present moment—over and over again.
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We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.
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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.
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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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